GCOV-DUMP(1)

🦋 gcov-dump 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

gcov-dump - offline gcda and gcno profile dump tool 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gcov-dump [-v|--version]
     [-h|--help]
     [-l|--long]
     [-p|--positions]
     gcovfiles

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so gcov-dump is a tool you pair with GCC to dump the content of gcda and gcno profile files offline 🌸 it's giving organized, it's giving useful, periodt 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — shows you the help text for using gcov-dump (printed to the standard output) and then it bounces, no further processing 🙈
• -l, --long — dumps the content of records, the full tea ☕ 🧚
• -p, --positions — dumps the positions of records 🦋
• -v, --version — prints the gcov-dump version number (to the standard output) and exits right away without doing any further processing 🎀

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright (c) 2017-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 🌈

ngl the legal part is important, so listen up 👑 you have permission 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. The Invariant Sections are "GNU General Public License" and "Funding Free Software", the Front-Cover texts are (a) (see below), and the Back-Cover Texts are (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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