Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

[Timothy J.Wood]

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