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Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing


On Mar 25, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

"Timothy J.Wood" <tjw@omnigroup.com> writes:
|    A compiler option to set the target directory for these files (and
| the coverage ones!) would be great.  Possibly even better would be an
| environment variable.  If the user wants to compare two sets of
| coverage information from two sets of tests, they shouldn't have to
| rebuild their entire project to do so (though I guess they could do
| directory swapping after each run).

yes, but would not a compiler option suffice?

Certainly; as I indicated above, directory swizzling between runs would make up for the lack of being able to configure this at runtime. I also like Joe Buck's suggestion of creating the intermediate directories if missing (under either approach).

-tim

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