Re: [Valgrind-users] Introducing Covergrind Beta 1 - a source code coverage tool

[Aleix P. <ale...@kd...>]

I've wondered many times why isn't there any good coverage utility yet.

good=that works with any debug executable

Isn't it a great metric to be used? Why isn't there much involvement from
valgrind maintainers? (just to know, i don't mean you should, of course)

Do valgrind developers think that VCOV is the proper approach to the
problem?

Thanks,
Aleix

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <
n.n...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Christophe-Marie
> Duquesne<chm...@gm...> wrote:
> > Reading my previous message again, I realize it may be good to give
> > more information about what I'm looking for.
> >
> > Apparently, you can use valgrind to measure code-coverage (with the
> > covergrind patch). I find this interesting, because you don't have to
> > add special compilation options (well, you only need the symbols and
> > it is preferable not to optimize, from what I understand). Since I did
> > not got any answer, I'm assuming covergrind is no longer maintained.
> > Anyway, if I'm wrong or if you know other patches that would do the
> > same thing, please let me know.
>
> I vaguely remember Covergrind, I think it is unmaintained.  There is also
> Vcov:
>
> ssh://svn.valgrind.org/branches/VCOV
>
> But it also hasn't been worked on for some time and is probably also
> broken.
>
> Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_Dilemma is worth
> reading, with respect to lack of answers on mailing lists.
>
> Nick
>
>
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