Re: arm-elf-gcc with gcov option do not work

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>]

Franz Kaufleitner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're trying to use GCOV together with the ARM-ELF development 
> environment.
>  
> Our installation is:
> arm-elf-gcc: 3.4.3
> arm-elf-ld:  2.15
> arm-elf-ar, binutils: 2.15
>  
>  
> (1) First we've compiled with the following standard gcc command line
>     gcc -fprofile-arcs ?ftest-coverage ?o sample sample.c
>     Running the image will create the expected gcov data file sample.da.
>
> (2) After them, we've tried it with the arm-elf-gcc
>     arm-elf-gcc -fprofile-arcs ?ftest-coverage ?o sample sample.c
>     Running the image in the arm emulation arm-elf-run, no gcov data
>     file sample.gda has been created.
>  
> (3) Next, we've tried to manipulate the gcov internals by putting a
>     debugging printf to the fuctions gcov_init and gcov_flush, but
>     it seems, that the code of these functions isn't entered.

It seems like ctor functions are not being run.  Have you tried a C++ program 
which requires dynamic initializtion of a global variable?  Something like

struct Foo { Foo () {printf ("ctoring\n");}
	    ~Foo () {printf ("dtoring\n");}};

Foo object;

int main () {}

what does that do?

If it doesn't print those two strings, then something's awry with process 
startup.  That is somewhat system dependent and it sounds like you're running on 
a bare board.  You'll need to examine your crt0 to see how it starts things up.

nathan

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