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Code coverage is a measure used to how often each source code statement and branch is executed. This measure is usually required when running a test suite to ensure that as much of the code as possible is tested by the test suite. It can also be used during profiling to determine code hot-spots and ...

Before using gcov, source code should be compiled with gcc using the two flags, -fprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage. This tells the compiler to generate the information and extra object file code required by gcov. gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage hello.c Linking should also use the -fprofile-a...

To generate the coverage information the compiled program should be executed. When creating code coverage for a test suite this execution step will normally be performed by the test suite so that the coverage shows what parts of the program the tests executes and which they do not. $ a.out Execu...