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Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas
- From: Martin Liška <mliska at suse dot cz>
- To: joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com, Martin Jambor <mjambor at suse dot cz>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:18:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas
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On 01/17/2018 11:16 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> We have a tool that aggregates the output of simulator trace logs
> and generates coverage reports directly. It can also generate
> gcov output but there are some anomalies when gcov generates reports
> from our input that don't match the truth of the traces.
>
> We just need someone who can explain what is wrong so it can be fixed.
Hello.
I have quite some knowledge about gcov infrastructure and I've applied various
patches in the tool for upcoming GCC 8 release. Can you please define more
specifically what you'll need and what's limitation of current gcov infrastructure?
If that would lead in a topic for GSoC, I can mentor that.
Martin