On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:25:27PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > I suspect that adding -O0 to the flags would be useful, otherwise the > optimiser can remove some of the contructs you are trying to test.
Good call. > > Then C<make gcov> and poke around at the generated Foo.xs.gcov > > results. > > I have been (slowly) investigating how to integrate gcov with the > backend of Devel::Cover. I deliberately designed the backend to be > language agnostic. Unfortunately, I've not had much time to work on it > recently. > > One thing has become very apparent though. Perl still has many untested > corners. We were speculating a little about that too. 63% is certainly better than my most cynical guess, and with enough room for improvement that it looks like it could be grounds for sufficient fun. Is the code you used due for a release soon? Can I make it go faster by asking less dumb questions? And where do bees come from? > Here's where I'm up to. This is from a debugging bleadperl last night: I was going to look at both those things tomorrow, but I'm more than happy to let you have it. It gives me time to arrange going to conferences and practice breaking things. While the thought is in my brain, are you planning to talk at any conferences this year? I know I'd like to see a Devel::Cover flavoured talk, and I suspect I'm not alone. It's also helped me enough recently retrofitting tests to some code at work that I suspect that I owe you at least a drink or six. -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> do you believe in the one big song?
