I applied this patch. Aaron's patch, AFAICT, would repeatedly fopen the error file.
nathan
2016-06-05 Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> PR libgcc/71400 * libgcov-driver-system.c (__gcov_error_file): Disable if IN_GCOV_TOOL. (get_gcov_error_file): Check __gcov_error_file before trying to initialize it. (gcov_error): Always use get_gcov_error_file. Index: libgcov-driver-system.c =================================================================== --- libgcov-driver-system.c (revision 237131) +++ libgcov-driver-system.c (working copy) @@ -23,31 +23,32 @@ a copy of the GCC Runtime Library Except see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ +#if !IN_GCOV_TOOL /* Configured via the GCOV_ERROR_FILE environment variable; it will either be stderr, or a file of the user's choosing. Non-static to prevent multiple gcov-aware shared objects from instantiating their own copies. */ FILE *__gcov_error_file = NULL; +#endif /* A utility function to populate the __gcov_error_file pointer. This should NOT be called outside of the gcov system driver code. */ static FILE * -get_gcov_error_file(void) +get_gcov_error_file (void) { -#if !IN_GCOV_TOOL +#if IN_GCOV_TOOL return stderr; #else - char *gcov_error_filename = getenv ("GCOV_ERROR_FILE"); - - if (gcov_error_filename) + if (!__gcov_error_file) { - FILE *openfile = fopen (gcov_error_filename, "a"); - if (openfile) - __gcov_error_file = openfile; + const char *gcov_error_filename = getenv ("GCOV_ERROR_FILE"); + + if (gcov_error_filename) + __gcov_error_file = fopen (gcov_error_filename, "a"); + if (!__gcov_error_file) + __gcov_error_file = stderr; } - if (!__gcov_error_file) - __gcov_error_file = stderr; return __gcov_error_file; #endif } @@ -60,11 +61,8 @@ gcov_error (const char *fmt, ...) int ret; va_list argp; - if (!__gcov_error_file) - __gcov_error_file = get_gcov_error_file (); - va_start (argp, fmt); - ret = vfprintf (__gcov_error_file, fmt, argp); + ret = vfprintf (get_gcov_error_file (), fmt, argp); va_end (argp); return ret; }