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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:14:09 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: About release of gcc-2.95.3 for DJGPP
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, it's not strictly necessary for gcov itself to work in SFN, as long
> > as an LFN environment is available at all: the data files carry short
> > names (foo.bb, foo.da, foo.bbg), and it should suffice to run gcov in the
> > LFN environment, later, in case the target program itself doesn't work in
> > LFN.
> 
> This is extremely inconvenient, since coverage analysis usually involves 
> repeated runs of the program with different inputs, using the coverage as 
> guidelines. 

Fully agreed. I wrote the above reply before seeing all of the answers in
that thread which proceeded to define a scheme that might, indeed,
actually work on DOS, while not creating too much of a deviation from the
documented behaviour as found in the gcov docs. SFN is a pest, but that
method of filling in the remainder of the filename with 'gcov', from the
right, should indeed work in most of the typical cases.

> Having to reboot the machine or copy the data files to 
> another machine slows down this process tremendously.

Sure. Except maybe in NT, where the output generated by a DJGPP
program restricted to SFN should be analysable by gprof from a native
GCC port (after patching it for binary file handling, that is :-), and all
that without any reboot.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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