Kean Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't understand why the .type and .size information is useless. > Becuase its for a local lable only, not anything thats intended > to wind up in the symbol table? I'm not sure what meaning a > type and size has for a local lable like that?
Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry. What if you use the -L assembler option, though? I was misled a bit by TREE_STATIC, which is not the property you are looking for. > An second solution would be to have create_coverage() > use a symbol name that isn't an internal lable. For example, > prefixing it with __gcov_. That also solves the problem. That sounds like a reasonable approach to me. I don't see why it is useful to hide these symbols entirely in any case. It seems more useful to have them visible to the debugger, etc. Ian
