Harry Trinta <harrytpc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > My name is Harry and I've been doing my master's degree at USP > (Universidade de SÃo Paulo) here in Brazil. My thesis will address > about applying structural tests for embedded systems. > Then, for now, my activity is study and understand how the gcov works > (internally). I've never studied about it before, and I'm having some > problems. > I' have been researching on the Internet about the subject but I > couldn't find anything helpful, and so, I decided to contact you guys. > I saw that on GCC there are several sources related to the gcov: > - Âcoverage > - Âgcov > - Âprofile > - Âgcov-io > - Âlibgcov > > I don't understand how each one works and what are their responsibilities. > I need understand which function starts the Gcov process. Moreover, i > need to know which source is responsible for instrumenting the code.. > and others things. > In short: I need to understand the internal behavior of gcov. It's hard to answer general questions. It's much easier to answer specific questions. So, ask specific questions. I don't know what you mean by asking which function starts the gcov process. The instrumentation code is inserted by code in gcc/tree-profile.c. Ian
