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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 | ff84b9403504ae9eaefbc1eafe58da87dd590e39 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e44ad24a1ea11dc42d11745e974a1c83dde462b /docs | |
| parent | 9e9d06a8601ab3f66aa5e4a65ce144430d06adda (diff) | |
| download | clang-ff84b9403504ae9eaefbc1eafe58da87dd590e39.tar.gz | |
[docs] Coverage: document issue with the BFD linker
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@305743 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst b/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst index 474af30ae3..c38a00386d 100644 --- a/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst +++ b/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: |