Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-29 Thread Nathan Sidwell
Joe Buck wrote: That wouldn't have saved me in the case described above, as the pathnames are already set in the executable. A *runtime* way of altering the locations of the .gcda files would be nice to have. For example, we could have something like GCDA_PATH_PREFIX which, if set, would be prepe

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:03:55PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | That wouldn't have saved me in the case described above, as the pathnames | > | are already set in the executable. A *runtime* way of altering th

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:03:55PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | That wouldn't have saved me in the case described above, as the pathnames > | are already set in the executable. A *runtime* way of altering the > | locations of the .gcda files would be ni

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the | > | object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do | > | remote testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system d

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Timothy J . Wood
On Mar 25, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: "Timothy J.Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |A compiler option to set the target directory for these files (and | the coverage ones!) would be great. Possibly even better would be an | environment variable. If the user wants to compare two

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Timothy J.Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Mar 24, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: | | > When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into | > the object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do | > remote testing, we lose, as, in general the remote

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Joe Buck
Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the > | object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do > | remote testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system does > | not have the same file hierarchy as t

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Timothy J . Wood
On Mar 24, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do remote testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system does not have the same file hierarchy as the bu

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:59:55PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the > object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do remote > testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system does not have > the same file

Re: Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the | object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do | remote testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system does | not have the same file hierarchy as the build

Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

2005-03-25 Thread Mark Mitchell
When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the object file as an absolute path. As a result, when we try to do remote testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system does not have the same file hierarchy as the build system. I understand why we generate an asbolu