GCOV(1)

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 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.

SEE ALSO
The program is documented fully by gcc-2.95: The GNU C compiler., available via the Info system. The documentation 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.