To analyze our test coverage we build with -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage, and then use gcov to analyze the resulting data files. This works great, except that there are some functions that we would like to exclude from gcov's analysis (i.e. gcov could report 100% even if these functions weren't executed). We'd rather not have to use conditional compilation with #ifdefs to exclude this code when analyzing coverage. I see in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-11/msg01543.html that a "no_profile" attribute was added to the cfg-branch. It seems like this would do exactly what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, it seems this attribute was not merged to the trunk when this branch was closed, although I could not find any reason why in the archives. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to exclude some specified functions from gcov analysis, or failing that, any insight into what happened to __attribute__((no_profile))? Thank you, -- James Juran Senior Secure Systems Analyst BAE Systems Information Technology Information Assurance Group XTS Operating Systems james.juran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
