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| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/gcov-io.h | 8 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index d23ebff..f4424c6 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2020-05-11 Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz> + + PR gcov-profile/94928 + * gcov-io.h: Add caveat about coverage format parsing and + possible outdated documentation. + 2020-05-11 Xiong Hu Luo <luoxhu@linux.ibm.com> PR tree-optimization/83403 diff --git a/gcc/gcov-io.h b/gcc/gcov-io.h index d21a43c..ef888f3 100644 --- a/gcc/gcov-io.h +++ b/gcc/gcov-io.h @@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ -/* Coverage information is held in two files. A notes file, which is +/* CAVEAT: Coverage information files should not be parsed directly, + instead use `gcov --json-format`, which provides + machine-readable coverage information. + + Note that the following file format documentation might be outdated. + + Coverage information is held in two files. A notes file, which is generated by the compiler, and a data file, which is generated by the program under test. Both files use a similar structure. We do not attempt to make these files backwards compatible with previous |