Changes to enable the use of gcov
Scott Ritchie
scott at open-vote.org
Tue Jun 15 00:15:38 CDT 2010
On 06/14/2010 08:04 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Peter Davies wrote:
>> To use gcov you must pass --coverage at both compile and link time.
>> This patch means that "make CFLAGS=--coverage LDFLAGS=--coverage",
>> "make test",
>> "gcov file.c" is sufficient generate .gcov files.
>>
>>
> Peter:
>
> Somehow this patch got munged in transit and will not apply to current
> git. Can you update it and send it again?
>
> James McKenzie
>
As an aside, if gcov compilation finally starts working that means we
can build Wine using GCC's Profile Guided Optimization. In other
applications this has made a very significant boost in performance, and
it's basically "free".
Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
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