Hi Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Marc Alff wrote: > >> 2) Licensing >> >> For technical reasons, I can not use the gcov library itself, >> and plan to implement code to read/write the files the GCOV program >> needs. > > Then why do you need to use the gcov file formats? > The equivalent of "compiling" and "executing" the code, which produces a .gcno and .gcda file respectively, is embedded in a 24x7 server and needs to be thread safe, which the gcov library is not in my understanding.
The reason to use the same format is to reuse the last step, when the original source code is annotated and the code coverage is computed (by the gcov program). Thanks Nicholas and Joe for your comments, Marc Alff.
