GCOV

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NAME

gcov - test coverage program for GNU CC

SYNOPSIS

gcov [-b] [-v] [-n] [-l] [-f] [-o directory] sourcefile

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the gcov command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

gcov is a test coverage program. Use it in concert with GNU CC to analyze your programs to help create more efficient, faster running code. You can use gcov as a profiling tool to help discover where your optimization efforts will best affect your code. You can also use gcov along with the other profiling tool, gprof , to assess which parts of your code use the greatest amount of computing time.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by the egcs maintainers for the Debian GNU/Linux system.