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Hi Thomas,

On 01/11/2013 06:19 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Did someone manage to build/run gcov for an armv7a?
>> ... or let's put it otherwise: Why doesn't it exist on the target?
>
> I supposed the idea is to generate to coverage data on the target, and
> then analyze them with gcov on the build machine. See
>
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Cross_002dprofiling.html#Cross_002dprofiling.

Yes this should work. Thanks!
It's also documented in the kernel source tree [1].

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>

[1]:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/gcov.txt;h=e7ca6478cd93d4e6422d1ae92455b347dbdf7ccb;hb=HEAD

Regards,

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