Bug#535755: /usr/bin/gcov-4.3: gcov produces wrong answers when given more than one source file
Package: gcc-4.3
Version: 4.3.2-1.1
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gcov-4.3
The gcov man page reports that one can give gcov multiple source files
at one invocation. This does not work:
gcov -o BUILD-Linux-i686--coverage ../src/*.c
reports that most source files contain 'No executable lines'.
Whereas
for i in ../src/*.c; do gcov -o BUILD-Linux-i686--coverage $i; done
produced sensible answers.
This is probably a problem for upstream, but an immediate fix would be
to alter the man page to warn users that they can give only one source
file at a time.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gcc-4.3 depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-4.3 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libgomp1 4.3.2-1.1 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
Versions of packages gcc-4.3 recommends:
ii libc6-dev 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Development Librari
Versions of packages gcc-4.3 suggests:
ii gcc-4.3-doc 4.3.2.nf1-1 documentation for the GNU compiler
pn gcc-4.3-locales <none> (no description available)
pn gcc-4.3-multilib <none> (no description available)
pn libgcc1-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn libgomp1-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn libmudflap0-4.3-dev <none> (no description available)
pn libmudflap0-dbg <none> (no description available)
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