https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37845
Yibiao Yang <yangyibiao at nju dot edu.cn> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |yangyibiao at nju dot edu.cn --- Comment #7 from Yibiao Yang <yangyibiao at nju dot edu.cn> --- Created attachment 45464 --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=45464&action=edit [GCOV] Wrong frequencies when a global variable is in a while expression in gcov $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) $ cat small.c int b; void main() { int c = 0; while (b) { c = 1; } } $ gcc small.c --coverage; ./a.out; gcov small.c; cat small.c.gcov File 'small.c' Lines executed:80.00% of 5 Creating 'small.c.gcov' -: 0:Source:small.c -: 0:Graph:small.gcno -: 0:Data:small.gcda -: 0:Runs:1 -: 0:Programs:1 -: 1:int b; -: 2: 1: 3:void main() -: 4:{ 1: 5: int c = 0; 2: 6: while (b) { #####: 7: c = 1; -: 8: } 1: 9:} We can find that Line #6 is wrongly marked as executed twice.