Hello,

I would like to use the -ftest-coverage -fprofile-arcs support on a bare metal system (no operating system or very early stages in the system startup). In this environment I cannot use the gcov info registration via a constructor and __gcov_init(), because there may be some other (more complex) constructors registered which cannot be called at this stage.. Would it be acceptable to add a compiler option which changes the gcov info registration via a constructor to a linker set? If enabled, then for each translation unit (see coverage_obj_init()) a pointer to the gcov info is placed into a special linker section (for example .gcov_info). The linker script collects all .gcov_info data and adds a begin/end symbol. The runtime support can then iterate over all linker section entries (pointers to struct gcov_info) to dump the aggregated gcov data during program termination. Would such changes be acceptable for GCC integration or is this too specific?

Kind regards,

    Sebastian

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