https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89000
--- Comment #3 from Martin Liška <marxin at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > > We downgraded our toolchain to 7.4 because our process currently expects the > gcov output to be consistent with previous output from our heritage > baseline. We do need the output, and ideally it would be part of the -f > option as in the past, but we could pull the data from the intermediate > format, as you suggested, so once that is available we would be interested > in reviewing it for adoption into our process and tools. Thanks for your > quick response. I would definitely recommend the intermediate format that will be reworked in GCC 9.1 release. It should provide more stable format in a JSON format. Please take a look: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Invoking-Gcov.html#Invoking-Gcov (--json-format).
