[PATCH] Add an intermediate coverage format for gcov

[Mike Stump]

On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Sharad Singhai <singhai@google.com> wrote:
> Okay, I liked the idea of self-descriptive tags. I have updated the
> patch based on your suggestions. I have simplified the format
> somewhat. Instead of repeating function name, I use a 'function' tag
> with the format
> 
> function:<name>,<line number>,<execution count>

Sound nice.

> I also dropped the unmangled function names, they were turning out to
> be too unreadable and not really useful in this context.

Ah, I'd argue for mangled names.  Every one knows they can stream through c++filt and get unmangled, but once you unmangle, you can never go back.  Also, the mangled version is significantly smaller.  For c, it is irrelevant, for c++, it makes a big difference.
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