GCOV-DUMP(1)

🌸 gcov-dump — the manual page, but make it cute 🌸

okay bestie, you found the gcov-dump(1) manual page, a.k.a. the GNU offline profile dump tool, and honestly? it's giving lowkey legendary. it lives in section 1 of the manual, it's part of the GNU fam, and it has exactly one job: letting you peek inside your gcda and gcno files without booting up anything else. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

gcov-dump — offline gcda and gcno profile dump tool 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gcov-dump [-v|--version]
     [-h|--help]
     [-l|--long]
     [-p|--positions]
     [-r|--raw]
     [-s|--stable]
     gcovfiles

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so gcov-dump is a tool you use in conjunction with GCC, bestie — you hand it your gcda and gcno profile files and it dumps their content offline. no network, no ceremony, just you and the raw truth of your compiler output. icon behavior, truly. 🦋

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — shows you the help for using gcov-dump, printed right there on the standard output, and then it dips. exits without doing any further processing. very "here's the lore, bye" of it. ✨
• -l, --long — dumps the content of records. yes, the long version. long like my notes app. 📝
• -p, --positions — dumps the positions of records. it's giving "where exactly is everything". 📍
• -r, --raw — prints content records in raw format. unfiltered. no glow-up, no edits, just raw. 🔥
• -s, --stable — prints content in a stable format that's actually usable for comparison. so when you diff two dumps, it behaves. comparison-safe, periodt. 💀
• -v, --version — displays the gcov-dump version number (yes, on the standard output) and bounces immediately, no further processing. classic. 👑

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2017-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License" and "Funding Free Software", the Front-Cover texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the gfdl(7) man page.

(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:

A GNU Manual

(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:

You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
software.  Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
funds for GNU development.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this masterpiece of a page ships with source/version gcc-13.5.0 and is dated 2026-09-10, and yes it's still wearing its GCOV-DUMP(1) header energy. now go dump some profiles, you absolute main character. 🌈⭐