GCov data files

[Nathan Sidwell]

Sébastien Pierre wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to use gcov datafiles (.bb and .bbg) files to represent the 
> structure of a program, particularily to produce a graph with functions 
> (nodes) and caller/callee relations (arcs).
> 
> I wrote a parser for .bb and .bbg and have difficulties in interpreting 
> properly the content of these files :
> 
> - for the same source file, the number of basic blocks in .bb and in 
> .bbg files differ (281 in .bb vs 593 in .bbg)
> - I don't know the meaning of arc flags (spanning tree, fake edge, fall 
> through)
> - I don't know if I should count functions as basic blocks
> 
> Also, I came across some other questions. For instance, there is no 
> unique basic block naming scheme, so how is gcov able to tell that basic 
> block b from file x.c has an arc to basic block b' from file y.c ?
gcov covers the arc within a function, not between functions. The gcov data
format was redesigned in the current development

nathan

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