gcov-2.951
Test coverage program for gnu cc
Usage
gcov [-b]
[-v]
[-n]
[-l]
[-f]
[-o
directory]
sourcefile
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the gcov command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation 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 efficient, faster running code. You can use gcov as a profiling 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.
Releases
Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody).