Author: vedantk Date: Thu Feb 9 15:33:21 2017 New Revision: 294626 URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=294626&view=rev Log: [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! Modified: cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst Modified: cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst?rev=294626&r1=294625&r2=294626&view=diff ============================================================================== --- cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst (original) +++ cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst Thu Feb 9 15:33:21 2017 @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Clang ships two other code coverage impl 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. _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits