On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 06:01:07PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Astroman (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> > I am working on a piece of software that never exits and I am trying to
> > use -fprofile-arcs and gcov to gather coverage data on it.
> >The code looks like this:
> >int main(){
> > while(1){
> > foo();
> > nanosleep(50);
> > }
> >}
> > This is a child process that as you can see will never exit on its own
> > so eventually it is just signal killed by the parent process. This code
> > could be changed to exit properly but that is not an option in this
> > case. I am compiling the code with -fprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage
> > and I am able to obtain accurate coverage data for all the files in the
> > project that exit normally. Is there any way to collect the .da file
> > data before exit? Is it temporarily stored anywhere or could I alter
> > the gcc library to store this information more often?
>
> call __gcov_flush
It seems you could just invoke that function from gdb, and not change
the program at all, right?
