This makes documentation more precise.
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Martin
PR gcov-profile/104677
gcc/ChangeLog:
* doc/invoke.texi: Document more .gcda file name generation.
---
gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index ec291c06542..07da1eb2047 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -13459,6 +13459,7 @@ counts to a file called @file{@var{sourcename}.gcda}
for each source
file. The information in this data file is very dependent on the
structure of the generated code, so you must use the same source code
and the same optimization options for both compilations.
+See details about the file naming in @option{-fprofile-arcs}.
With @option{-fbranch-probabilities}, GCC puts a
@samp{REG_BR_PROB} note on each @samp{JUMP_INSN} and @samp{CALL_INSN}.
@@ -15237,6 +15238,12 @@ explicitly specified and it is not the final
executable, otherwise it is
the basename of the source file. In both cases any suffix is removed
(e.g.@: @file{foo.gcda} for input file @file{dir/foo.c}, or
@file{dir/foo.gcda} for output file specified as @option{-o dir/foo.o}).
+
+Note that if a command line directly links source files, the corresponding
+@var{.gcda} files will be prefixed with a name of the output file.
+E.g. @code{gcc a.c b.c -o binary} would generate @file{binary-a.gcda} and
+@file{binary-b.gcda} files.
+
@xref{Cross-profiling}.
@cindex @command{gcov}
@@ -15330,7 +15337,8 @@ profile data file appears in the same directory as the
object file.
In order to prevent the file name clashing, if the object file name is
not an absolute path, we mangle the absolute path of the
@file{@var{sourcename}.gcda} file and use it as the file name of a
-@file{.gcda} file. See similar option @option{-fprofile-note}.
+@file{.gcda} file. See details about the file naming in
@option{-fprofile-arcs}.
+See similar option @option{-fprofile-note}.
When an executable is run in a massive parallel environment, it is recommended
to save profile to different folders. That can be done with variables
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