GCOV-DUMP(1)

📦 version 12.1.1, in epel 9

💅 GCOV-DUMP(1) — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is gcov-dump, a GNU situation, and honestly? it's giving backstage-pass energy 🎀 it's the little tool that lets you peek at your gcda and gcno profile files offline, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

gcov-dump — the offline gcda and gcno profile dump tool 🫶 (yes, that's literally its whole job and it ate)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

like, you throw your gcovfiles at it and pick your flags, iykyk 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

gcov-dump is the tool you run alongside GCC to dump the content of gcda and gcno profile files — offline. that's it, that's the vibe. no live process, no main character compiler breathing down your neck, just you and your profile files 🔥

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -h, --help — shows you the help for gcov-dump on the standard output, then dips out immediately without doing any further processing 🙈 iconic exit behaviour, honestly.
  • -l, --long — dumps the content of records 👑 this is the "tell me everything" flag.
  • -p, --positions — dumps the positions of records 📍 so you know where stuff sits, fr fr.
  • -r, --raw — prints content records in raw format 💀 raw like your unfiltered group chat.
  • -v, --version — prints the gcov-dump version number on the standard output and exits right there without doing any further processing ⭐ short and sweet, periodt.

Copyright (c) 2017-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

okay so the legal besties have spoken 🫶 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, so go read that if you want the full lore 📚

(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.
💖 ngl that's the whole page — every flag, every file type, every copyright line, all accounted for. no skips, no cuts, we don't do that here.

and that's a wrap, bestie 🌸 this lil beauty is from gcc-12, dated 2022-05-07 — go dump some records, you're gonna slay ✨🦋💜

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