Re: [PATCH] gcov,x86: Mark GCOV broken for x86

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jun 14 2021 - 14:21:05 EST


On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:05:35AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> __attribute__((no_instrument_function)) is already wired to not emit
> calls to mcount()/fentry(). I think extending it to also apply to
> coverage (-fprofile-arcs) and instrumentation based profiling
> (-fprofile-generate) is reasonable.

Is anyone going to ping the gcc folks so that they do it too or should
we open a bug over there simply?

Thx.

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