From bc505a9b466d7920da3db7989f1bf23509b23202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vedant Kumar Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 21:33:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [docs] coverage: Clarify which flags enable gcov-style profiling (NFC) Point out that --coverage and -ftest-coverage, which is what most people are used to, do not enable clang's frontend based coverage pass. Suggested by Benn Bolay! git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@294626 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst b/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst index 8e72b2287e..474af30ae3 100644 --- a/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst +++ b/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Clang ships two other code coverage implementations: various sanitizers. It can provide up to edge-level coverage. * gcov - A GCC-compatible coverage implementation which operates on DebugInfo. + This is enabled by ``-ftest-coverage`` or ``--coverage``. From this point onwards "code coverage" will refer to the source-based kind. -- 2.40.0