Re: Changes to enable the use of gcov

[Scott Ritchie]

On 06/14/2010 08:04 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Peter Davies wrote:
> > To use gcov you must pass --coverage at both compile and link time.
> > This patch means that "make CFLAGS=--coverage LDFLAGS=--coverage",
> > "make test",
> > "gcov file.c" is sufficient generate .gcov files.
>
> Peter:
>
> Somehow this patch got munged in transit and will not apply to current
> git.  Can you update it and send it again?
>
> James McKenzie

As an aside, if gcov compilation finally starts working that means we
can build Wine using GCC's Profile Guided Optimization.  In other
applications this has made a very significant boost in performance, and
it's basically "free".

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie