Re: Why don't use "Code Coverage" in GCC?

["J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza at gmail dot com>]

2007/11/28, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:43:48AM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> > I'd read "GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2007-11-27)" from
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-11/msg00753.html
> >
> > I suppose that there is not time to eliminate many bugs from
> > open regressions & others.
> >
> > Could not we to use "Code coverage" of the GCC snapshot
> > during its bootstrapping or testsuite time?
>
> Certainly.  Would you like to volunteer?
>
> > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_coverage
>
> Everyone here knows what code coverage is.  If you want to experiment with
> gcov, see what our coverage rate is, or try to produce more tests to cover
> more source lines, feel free.
>
> You have a habit of saying "GCC should do X, GCC should do Y."
> But things happen because people do the work, not because people
> suggest that others do work.

No problem, i will start to experiment it for my night to have GCC-4.3 a
little bit cleaner :)

   J.C.Pizarro starting volunteerly ...