GCOV-DUMP(1)

💖 GCOV-DUMP(1) — the GNU girlie's guide 💖

okay so bestie, this is gcov-dump from the GNU fam, and it's genuinely one of the most underrated little tools in the whole GCC friend group. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

gcov-dump — the 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 this tool you can use in conjunction with GCC to dump the content of gcda and gcno profile files — offline. like, no live compiler needed, just vibes and a file. it's giving forensic investigator but make it coverage data 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — displays help about using gcov-dump (on the standard output) and then exits without doing any further processing. the polite lil "wait, how does this work" button 🥰
• -l, --long — dumps content of records. more detail, more lore.
• -p, --positions — dumps positions of records. where the records at? now you know 📍
• -r, --raw — prints content records in raw format. no filter, no glow-up, just the raw truth.
• -s, --stable — prints content in stable format usable for comparison. this is the one you want when you're diffing two dumps and need them to actually line up 🙈
• -v, --version — displays the gcov-dump version number (on the standard output) and then exits without doing any further processing. iconic, brief, no notes ✨

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (c) 2017-2024 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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fr fr bestie, that license text is a whole paragraph and yes you do have to read it. it's not filler, it's the actual terms 💖

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🧚 this one shipped in gcc-14.2.0, dated 2024-08-01, and it's still serving coverage-dump realness to this day. mwah 💋 slay, go dump some records ✨