On 24/03/2022 11:29, Martin Liška wrote:
On 3/23/22 15:50, Sebastian Huber wrote:
The attached script reads the log file and creates the *.gcda files using gcov-tool. Initially, the target files do not exist.

Now I've got your use-case and I like it. It's cool one can utilize GCOV even without a filesystem.

Yes, it basically works quite well. I try to make it a bit easier to use. What seems to be quite common is that tests for embedded systems report their test data through an in order character stream, for example through an UART device. I used this primitive encoding of the gcov information:

*** BEGIN OF GCOV INFO ***

/home/EB/sebastian_h/src/lwip/b-xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/init.gcda
YWRjZ1IzMEKtLjW3AAAAAQMAAADcaps855EX05p4KUUAAKEBOgAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAB
AAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEA
AAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAA
AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAACXn3k16
TDqmuIMwpAAAoQECAAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAADzkvDcfSnvcuIMwpAAAoQH+////AAAAAQMA
AACnWNZaIM7GWZ9hiOIAAKEBBAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAAPkGW3YHFUOO6Old
2wAAoQECAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAAIvy4CE9FxuM6Old2wAAoQECAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAB
AwAAANyvBDZiERlQ6Old2wAAoQECAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAACKQjCp2pYlIuIMwpAAAoQEC
AAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAAKSSXEjQFDluuIMwpAAAoQH+////AAAAAA==

/home/EB/sebastian_h/src/lwip/b-xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/src/netif/ethernet.gcda
YWRjZ1IzMEIwMjW3AAAAAQMAAAC+EBQuXa7stuNAYTkAAKEBCgAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABAwAAAAQbGWmmhbpBJ5lR8AAAoQEmAAAAAQAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

...

*** END OF GCOV INFO ***

Maybe we could add the file path into the gcov information stream using a new tag:

#define GCOV_TAG_GCDA_FILE_NAME  ((gcov_unsigned_t)0xa5000000)

Then the complete gcov information can be dumped using a single base64 encoded stream. We could add some support to the gcov-tool to read this stream and merge it into gcda files.

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