Coverage of templates

[Anders Peter Fugmann <afu at fugmann dot net>]

Hi,

I'm trying to examine the coverage of some template classes, which are
defined (and implemented) in header files.

Compiling test programs that includes the header files with the template
definitions / implementations with '-ftest-coverage -fprofile-arcs' does
not seem to emit basic blocks for template member functions that are not
referenced. Is there a way to instruct gcc to emit basic blocks for
these functions as well, in order to have gcov notice that the member
functions have an executions count of zero?

I have tried almost any flag to have gcc emit the missing basic-blocks:
-O0 -fkeep-inline-function -fno-default-inline -fno-inline

but still the basic blocks for the template member functions seems missing.

Searching the archives found a mail for the same problem, but no answer
was given (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2004-09/msg00056.html).

Using gcc version 4.1

Thanks
Anders