Author: vedantk
Date: Mon Jun 19 16:22:05 2017
New Revision: 305743
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=305743&view=rev
Log:
[docs] Coverage: document issue with the BFD linker
Modified:
cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst
Modified: cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst
URL:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst?rev=305743&r1=305742&r2=305743&view=diff
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--- cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst Mon Jun 19 16:22:05 2017
@@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ To specify an alternate directory for ra
Drawbacks and limitations
=========================
+* Prior to version 2.26, the GNU binutils BFD linker is not able link programs
+ with coverage enabled when the ``--gc-sections`` is enabled. The suggested
+ workaround is to either upgrade to a newer version of BFD, or to use the Gold
+ linker.
+
* Code coverage does not handle unpredictable changes in control flow or stack
unwinding in the presence of exceptions precisely. Consider the following
function:
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