For a CFG G=(V,E), Knuth describes that by Kirchoff's circuit law, the minimum
number of counters necessary is |E|-(|V|-1). The emitted edges form a spanning
tree. libgcov emitted .gcda files leverages this optimization while clang
--coverage's doesn't.
Propagate counts by Kirchhoff's circuit law so that llvm-cov gcov can
correctly print line counts of gcc --coverage emitted files and enable
the future improvement of clang --coverage.
gcov 9 (r264462) started to use GCOV_TAG_OBJECT_SUMMARY. Before,
GCOV_TAG_PROGRAM_SUMMARY was used.
libclang_rt.profile should emit just one tag according to the version.
Another bug introduced by rL194499 is that the wrong runcount field was
selected.
Fix the two bugs so that gcov can correctly decode "Runs:" from
libclang_rt.profile produced .gcda files, and llvm-cov gcov can
correctly decode "Runs:" from libgcov produced .gcda files.
GCDAProfiling.c unnecessarily writes function names to .gcda files.
GCC 4.2 gcc/libgcov.c (now renamed to libgcc/libgcov*) did not write function
names. gcov-7 (compatible) crashes on .gcda produced by libclang_rt.profile
rL176173 realized the problem and introduced a mode to remove function
names.
llvm-cov code apparently takes GCDAProfiling.c output format as truth
and tries to decode function names. Additionally, llvm-cov tries to
decode tags in certain order which does not match libgcov emitted .gcda
files.
This patch fixes the .gcda decoder and makes it work with GCC 8 and 9
(10 is compatible with 9). Note, line statistics are broken and not
fixed by this patch.
Add test/tools/llvm-cov/gcov-{4.7,8,9}.c to test compatibility.
Fangrui Song