Re: update for c++/3639

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On Sep 20, 2001, Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> c++/3639 points out a case for which the .bb file produced with
> -ftest-coverage has an entry for a line number associated with the
> wrong file, which at one time caused gcov to abort.

> With GCC 3.0.1 and the mainline, the .bb file still has the same
> misleading information but gcov no longer aborts; instead it issues the
> message "Unexpected EOF while reading source file x.C" or else reports
> call return information in the wrong file.  This is due to a change in
> gcov, although I haven't identified which particular change.

> The remaining problem is annoying, but not serious since it doesn't
> prevent the use of gcov with real C++ applications.

> The test case provided in the PR is not preprocessed source, but in
> order to demonstrate the problem gcov needs access to the original
> source files.  I've submitted a test case that used to cause gcov to
> abort and support for testing gcov with C++ in
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-09/msg00684.html
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-09/msg00411.html

> Can someone please add this information to GNATS?

You can do it yourself.  Just send e-mail to gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
with `c++/3639' in the beginning of the subject.

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