On 07/03/2011 02:10, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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If you're using -cov, you probably want -unittest,
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I disagree:
- Most of the time I use -cov, it's to check the normal flow of program logic, rather than
the unittests. It's true that it *can* be used to check that the unittests cover all
cases, but that's far from its only use.
- Even if checking unittests were its only *practical* use, it would be arbitrary to
program in a restriction explicitly.
- If there are circumstances in which code coverage analysis shouldn't be allowed, the
compiler should complain, not silently ignore the switch.
That it ignores -cov in the absence of these other switches is a bona fide bug. You're in
a better position to put it into Bugzilla than I am.
Moreover, does DMD have a Win64 (either runs on or compiles for) version? Or is it just
the normal Win32 version, running on your 64-bit system? It would be useful if we could
find out the circumstances in which this bug bites.
Stewart.
