Matt <matt@xxxxxxx> writes: > In using the gcov options to measure our unit test coverage, we are > getting low coverage numbers being reported for various directories > under bits/. I assume this is due to our inclusion of <vector> in the > program we are measuring coverage on. > > With both GCC 4.3.3 and GCC 4.4, we have been unable to filter out > these extraneous coverage bits. We have tried both the > -finstrument-functions-exclude-file-list and > -finstrument-functions-exclude-function-list options, neither of which > seem to have any effect on the coverage data being generated. > > How can we exclude the calculation of the coverage of the files in the > gcc's bits/ directory? Those options only affect -finstrument-functions. They do not affect coverage, which is controlled by -fprofile-arcs/-ftest-coverage/ --coverage. Unfortunately I don't know of any way to control coverage information for a specific function, or to ignore certain inlined functions. Ian
