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NAME         top

       gcov-tool - offline gcda profile processing tool

SYNOPSIS         top

       gcov-tool [-v|--version] [-h|--help]

       gcov-tool merge [merge-options] directory1 directory2
            [-o|--output directory]
            [-v|--verbose]
            [-w|--weight w1,w2]

       gcov-tool rewrite [rewrite-options] directory
            [-n|--normalize long_long_value]
            [-o|--output directory]
            [-s|--scale float_or_simple-frac_value]
            [-v|--verbose]

       gcov-tool overlap [overlap-options] directory1 directory2
            [-f|--function]
            [-F|--fullname]
            [-h|--hotonly]
            [-o|--object]
            [-t|--hot_threshold] float
            [-v|--verbose]

DESCRIPTION         top

       gcov-tool is an offline tool to process gcc's gcda profile files.

       Current gcov-tool supports the following functionalities:

       *   merge two sets of profiles with weights.

       *   read one set of profile and rewrite profile contents. One can
           scale or normalize the count values.

       Examples of the use cases for this tool are:

       *   Collect the profiles for different set of inputs, and use
           this tool to merge them. One can specify the weight to factor
           in the relative importance of each input.

       *   Rewrite the profile after removing a subset of the gcda
           files, while maintaining the consistency of the summary and
           the histogram.

       *   It can also be used to debug or libgcov code as the tools
           shares the majority code as the runtime library.

       Note that for the merging operation, this profile generated
       offline may contain slight different values from the online
       merged profile. Here are a list of typical differences:

       *   histogram difference: This offline tool recomputes the
           histogram after merging the counters. The resulting
           histogram, therefore, is precise. The online merging does not
           have this capability -- the histogram is merged from two
           histograms and the result is an approximation.

       *   summary checksum difference: Summary checksum uses a CRC32
           operation. The value depends on the link list order of gcov-
           info objects. This order is different in gcov-tool from that
           in the online merge. It's expected to have different summary
           checksums. It does not really matter as the compiler does not
           use this checksum anywhere.

       *   value profile counter values difference: Some counter values
           for value profile are runtime dependent, like heap addresses.
           It's normal to see some difference in these kind of counters.

OPTIONS         top

       -h
       --help
           Display help about using gcov-tool (on the standard output),
           and exit without doing any further processing.

       -v
       --version
           Display the gcov-tool version number (on the standard
           output), and exit without doing any further processing.

       merge
           Merge two profile directories.

           -o directory
           --output directory
               Set the output profile directory. Default output
               directory name is merged_profile.

           -v
           --verbose
               Set the verbose mode.

           -w w1,w2
           --weight w1,w2
               Set the merge weights of the directory1 and directory2,
               respectively. The default weights are 1 for both.

       rewrite
           Read the specified profile directory and rewrite to a new
           directory.

           -n long_long_value
           --normalize <long_long_value>
               Normalize the profile. The specified value is the max
               counter value in the new profile.

           -o directory
           --output directory
               Set the output profile directory. Default output name is
               rewrite_profile.

           -s float_or_simple-frac_value
           --scale float_or_simple-frac_value
               Scale the profile counters. The specified value can be in
               floating point value, or simple fraction value form, such
               1, 2, 2/3, and 5/3.

           -v
           --verbose
               Set the verbose mode.

       overlap
           Compute the overlap score between the two specified profile
           directories.  The overlap score is computed based on the arc
           profiles. It is defined as the sum of min (p1_counter[i] /
           p1_sum_all, p2_counter[i] / p2_sum_all), for all arc counter
           i, where p1_counter[i] and p2_counter[i] are two matched
           counters and p1_sum_all and p2_sum_all are the sum of counter
           values in profile 1 and profile 2, respectively.

           -f
           --function
               Print function level overlap score.

           -F
           --fullname
               Print full gcda filename.

           -h
           --hotonly
               Only print info for hot objects/functions.

           -o
           --object
               Print object level overlap score.

           -t float
           --hot_threshold <float>
               Set the threshold for hot counter value.

           -v
           --verbose
               Set the verbose mode.

SEE ALSO         top

       gpl(7), gfdl(7), fsf-funding(7), gcc(1), gcov(1) and the Info
       entry for gcc.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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       Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
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       below).  A copy of the license is included in the gfdl(7) man
       page.

       (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:

            A GNU Manual

       (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:

            You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
            software.  Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
            funds for GNU development.

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