> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On 4/25/06, Momchil Velikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Why does GCC emit multiple calls to __gcov_init, via mulitple (two)
> > > entries in
> > > the ctors table? For example "int foo () { return 0; }" compiled with
> > > "gcc -S
> > > -fprofile-generate" produces the following assembly file, where the
> > > ".ctors"
> > > section conrtains two entries.
> >
> > -funit-at-a-time fixes it. But who uses -fprofile-generate with -O0
> > these days...
>
> gcov is used for coverage testing, and these are best run at -O0.
coverage should be equivalent at -O0 and other levels now when profiling
is done early. I will try to look into how we end up with two inits.
(It would be however good idea to open the bug for it and assign it to
me so it won't get forgotten)
Honza
