From: Vedant Kumar Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:26:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [docs] Coverage: Improve the wording a bit X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de5743d6575952920b5938b9ed7269cd20f5bc23;p=clang [docs] Coverage: Improve the wording a bit git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@305745 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst b/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst index c38a00386d..805c987948 100644 --- a/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst +++ b/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst @@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ Drawbacks and limitations ========================= * Prior to version 2.26, the GNU binutils BFD linker is not able link programs - with coverage enabled when the ``--gc-sections`` is enabled. The suggested - workaround is to either upgrade to a newer version of BFD, or to use the Gold - linker. + compiled with ``-fcoverage-mapping`` in its ``--gc-sections`` mode. Possible + workarounds include disabling ``--gc-sections``, upgrading to a newer version + of BFD, or using the Gold linker. * Code coverage does not handle unpredictable changes in control flow or stack unwinding in the presence of exceptions precisely. Consider the following