GCOV(V)                                                   GCOV(V)



NAME
       gcov - test coverage program for GNU CC

SYNOPSIS
       gcov [-b] [-v] [-n] [-l] [-f] [-o directory] sourcefile

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the gcov command.  This
       manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribu-
       tion  (but  may  be  used by others), because the original
       program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has doc-
       umentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       gcov  is  a test coverage program.  Use it in concert with
       GNU CC to analyze your programs to help create more  effi-
       cient, faster running code.  You can use gcov as a profil-
       ing tool to help discover where your optimization  efforts
       will  best  affect your code.  You can also use gcov along
       with the other profiling tool, gprof  ,  to  assess  which
       parts  of  your  code use the greatest amount of computing
       time.

SEE ALSO
       The program is documented fully by  gcc-2.95:  The  GNU  C
       compiler.,  available via the Info system.  The documenta-
       tion for gcov can be found in the subsection "Gcov", under
       "a GNU CC test coverage program".

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page was written by the egcs maintainers for
       the Debian GNU/Linux system.



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