I want to use gcov in an embedded type environment. It supports both cold boot and warm boot.
For warm boot it does not reload the program from media, instead it 'just' jumps to the start and begins again. Due to support for warm boot, it does not support read-write initialized data. Writable data is initialized at run-time. When you build your program for code coverage (-ftest-coverage -fprofile-arcs), GCC creates some initialized read-write GCOV related data. Has anyone modified GCC to, presumably either under control of a command line option or possibly a configure time option, to initialize such data at run-time instead of compile-time? Thanks. David p.s. In case it matters / anyone cares -- we have copyright assignments on file for GCC, BINUTILS, and GDB, which the company lawyers assure me survived our acquisition by Dell.
