On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:44:56AM +0200, Fredrik Johansson wrote: > [ gcov on a source file with no .da/.gcda file ] > The 3.3.6 version assumes that the file not has been run (which is the > correct behaviour in my book) whereas the 3.4.4 version just "gives > up". I know that a large remake was done to gcov and it's .bb,.bbg,.da > contra .gcno, gcda files when 3.4 came along, but is that the reason > to change this beviour or has this been change due to some other fact?
It does seem that the old behavior is more useful, so one could argue that this is a regression. It should be easy enough for a motivated volunteer to fix, so we have the old behavior (assume all counts are zero if we have a .gcno but no .gcda file) again. Alternatively, a flag could be given to specify that missing .gcda file means all-counts-zero and that gcov should shut up about the issue.
