Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] gcov support appears to be broken - solved?

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Aleksandar Markovic <amarkovic@wavecomp.com> writes:

>>> #./configure --enable-gcov
>>> #make
>>> #make check
>>> #make coverage-report
>>>
>>> It seems that first three commands execute as expected. (For example,
>>> there are plenty of files generated by "make check" that would've not
>>> been generated if "enable-gcov" hadn't been chosen.) However, the
>>> last command complains about some missing files related to FP
>
>> So your failure mode is no report is generated at all? It's working for
>> me here.
>
> Alex, here is the thing:
>
> Seeing that my gcovr is relatively old (2014) 3.2 version, I upgraded it from git repo to the most recent 4.1 (actually, to a dev version, from the very tip of the tree), and "make coverage-report" started generating coverage reports. It did emit some error messages (totally different than previous), but still it did not stop like it used to do with gcovr 3.2.
>
> Perhaps you would want to add some gcov/gcovr minimal version info in our docs. (or at least a statement "this was tested with such and such gcc, gcov and gcovr", etc.?)
>
> Coverage report looked fine at first glance, but it a kind of
> disappointed me when I digged deeper into its content - for example,
> it shows very low coverage for our FP code (softfloat), while, in
> fact, we know that "make check" contains detailed tests on FP
> functionalities. But this is most likely a separate problem of a very
> different nature, perhaps the issue of separate git repo for FP tests
> (testfloat) that our FP tests use as a mid-layer.

I get:

68.6 %	2593 / 3782	62.2 %	1690 / 2718

Which is not bad considering we don't exercise the 80 and 128 bit
softfloat code at all (which is not shared by the re-factored 16/32/64
bit code).

>
> I'll try how everything works with my test examples, and will let you know.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated,
> Aleksandar
>
> Fond regards,
> Aleksandar
>
>
>> Alex Bennée


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