This patch set is for GCC 13. The aim is to better support gcov in free-standing environments. For example, you can run a test executable which dumps all gcov info objects in a serial data stream using __gcov_info_to_gcda() and the new __gcov_filename_to_gcfn(). It could be encoded as base64. It could be also compressed. On the host you unpack the encoded data stream and feed it into gcov-tool using the new "merge-stream" subcommand:
gcov-tool --help Usage: gcov-tool [OPTION]... SUB_COMMAND [OPTION]... Offline tool to handle gcda counts -h, --help Print this help, then exit -v, --version Print version number, then exit merge-stream [options] [stream-file] Merge coverage stream file (or stdin) and coverage file contents -v, --verbose Verbose mode -w, --weight <w1,w2> Set weights (float point values) Example: base64 -d log.txt | gcov-tool merge-stream The patch set does not change the format of .gcda files. TODO: * Tests for gcov-tool v2: * Address review comments from v1 * Simple test for __gcov_filename_to_gcfn() * Use xstrerror() * Add documentation Sebastian Huber (14): gcov-tool: Allow merging of empty profile lists gcov: Add mode to all gcov_open() gcov: Add open mode parameter to gcov_do_dump() gcov: Make gcov_seek() static gcov: Add __gcov_filename_to_gcfn() gcov-tool: Support file input from stdin gcov: Use xstrdup() gcov: Move prepend to list to read_gcda_file() gcov: Move gcov_open() to caller of read_gcda_file() gcov: Fix integer types in ftw_read_file() gcov: Record EOF error during read gcov-tool: Add merge-stream subcommand gcov: Use xstrerror() gcov: Add section for freestanding environments gcc/doc/gcov-tool.texi | 36 +++ gcc/doc/gcov.texi | 375 +++++++++++++++++++++++ gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 31 +- gcc/gcov-io.cc | 79 +++-- gcc/gcov-io.h | 35 ++- gcc/gcov-tool.cc | 107 +++++-- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/gcov-info-to-gcda.c | 36 ++- libgcc/gcov.h | 17 +- libgcc/libgcov-driver-system.c | 7 +- libgcc/libgcov-driver.c | 44 ++- libgcc/libgcov-util.c | 150 +++++++-- libgcc/libgcov.h | 3 - 12 files changed, 803 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1