GCOV-DUMP(1)

πŸ’– GCOV-DUMP πŸ’–

okay so bestie, welcome to the gcov-dump manual page β€” it lives in the GNU fam, section 1 of the manual pages, and it's lowkey one of those little tools that does exactly one thing and slays at it. let's get into it 🫢


✨ NAME ✨

gcov-dump β€” the offline gcda and gcno profile dump tool, no cap πŸ’…


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

so gcov-dump is this tool you can use together with GCC to dump the content of gcda and gcno profile files offline. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "let me look inside these files without needing the whole compiler situation running." iconic, honestly.


πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • -h, --help β€” shows you help about using gcov-dump, printed to the standard output, and then it dips. no further processing, we're done here πŸ’–
  • -l, --long β€” dumps the content of records. the long version, as the name suggests πŸ‘‘
  • -p, --positions β€” dumps the positions of records πŸ“
  • -r, --raw β€” prints content records in raw format. straight up, unfiltered, no makeup πŸ’€
  • -v, --version β€” shows you the gcov-dump version number on the standard output, and then exits without doing any further processing. bye bestie ✨

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ngl the legal bits are the main character here and they know it. don't skip them, fr fr πŸ™ˆ

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from gcc-12, dated 2022-03-19, and it's page GCOV-DUMP(1) of the manual. go dump some records, you ate πŸ’…βœ¨πŸŒˆ

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