Hi.
This explains why the option in $subject is needed when one uses dlopen
API of a shared library.
Ready for trunk?
Martin
gcc/ChangeLog:
2018-01-26 Martin Liska <mli...@suse.cz>
PR gcov-profile/83879
* doc/gcov.texi: Document necessity of --dynamic-list-data when
using dlopen functionality.
---
gcc/doc/gcov.texi | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gcc/doc/gcov.texi b/gcc/doc/gcov.texi
index b55ee852ef9..6157e8bbf7c 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/gcov.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/gcov.texi
@@ -788,6 +788,8 @@ Instrumented applications use a static destructor with priority 99
to invoke the @code{__gcov_dump} function. Thus @code{__gcov_dump}
is executed after all user defined static destructors,
as well as handlers registered with @code{atexit}.
+If an executable loads a dynamic shared object via dlopen functionality,
+@option{-Wl,--dynamic-list-data} is needed to dump all profile data.
@c man end
