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| author | Vedant Kumar <vsk@apple.com> | 2017-06-19 21:22:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Vedant Kumar <vsk@apple.com> | 2017-06-19 21:22:05 +0000 |
| commit | 82cd770914c9a66cadac514f6ac30296e8c8fc31 (patch) | |
| tree | d1ec14e581fd116c83984fbae5d3d715b8cd874a /clang/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst | |
| parent | f3e3629f3db1eca98b11b984b6ef2dcceda31527 (diff) | |
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[docs] Coverage: document issue with the BFD linker
llvm-svn: 305743
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diff --git a/clang/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst b/clang/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst index 474af30ae30..c38a00386d6 100644 --- a/clang/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst +++ b/clang/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst @@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ To specify an alternate directory for raw profiles, use Drawbacks and limitations ========================= +* Prior to version 2.26, the GNU binutils BFD linker is not able link programs + with coverage enabled when the ``--gc-sections`` is enabled. The suggested + workaround is to either upgrade to a newer version of BFD, or to use the Gold + linker. + * Code coverage does not handle unpredictable changes in control flow or stack unwinding in the presence of exceptions precisely. Consider the following function: |
