Support coverage testing with GCC/gcov
With gcc's --coverage option, we can perform automatic coverage data
collection for the test suite.
Add a new Makefile target 'coverage' that scraps all previous coverage
results, recompiles git with the required compiler/linker flags (in
addition to any flags you specify manually), then runs the test suite
and compiles a report.
The compilation must be done with all optimizations disabled, since
inlined functions (and for line-by-line coverage, also optimized
branches/loops) break coverage tracking.
The tests are run serially (with -j1). The coverage code should
theoretically allow concurrent access to its data files, but the
author saw random test failures. Obviously this could be improved.
The report currently consists of a list of functions that were never
executed during the tests, which is written to
'coverage-untested-functions'. Once this list becomes reasonably
short, we would also want to look at branches that were never taken.
Currently only toplevel *.c files are considered. It would be nice to
at least include xdiff, but --coverage did not save data to
subdirectories on the system used to write this (gcc 4.3.2).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>