Thank you for your answer. But I want to know if it is possible to start the program, to break it and set a flag (or something like that) to start coverage counter. Then resume the execution to have a coverage count.
The aim of that is to count the number of line executed when one special action is done in my software ! Best Regards, Fabien 2008/5/1, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:01 +0200, Fabien Baron wrote: > > > I'm working on a big project in C code, and I want to profile it so I > > used gcc with the options -ftest-coverage and -fprofile-arcs, and gcov > > to analyze the results. It works very well but on the whole project > > and the whole execution !! > > My question is : > > Is it possible to start and stop profiling/coverage during the program > > execution ? If it is how I can do that ? > > You should not need to compile every object file in the project with > those options. Just compile the ones you want to generate coverage data > for (of course you will need those options to link). > > By the way, you really should use --coverage to preserve your > sanity. ;-) > > Cheers, Ben > >
