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NAME

       llvm-cov - emit coverage information

SYNOPSIS

       llvm-cov command [args...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  llvm-cov  tool  shows code coverage information for programs that are instrumented to
       emit profile data. It can be used  to  work  with  gcov-style  coverage  or  with  clang's
       instrumentation based profiling.

       If the program is invoked with a base name of gcov, it will behave as if the llvm-cov gcov
       command were called. Otherwise, a command should be provided.

COMMANDS

gcovshowreport

GCOV COMMAND

   SYNOPSIS
       llvm-cov gcov [options] SOURCEFILE

   DESCRIPTION
       The llvm-cov  gcov  tool  reads  code  coverage  data  files  and  displays  the  coverage
       information  for a specified source file. It is compatible with the gcov tool from version
       4.2 of GCC and may also be compatible with some later versions of gcov.

       To use llvm-cov gcov, you must first build an instrumented  version  of  your  application
       that   collects   coverage   data   as  it  runs.  Compile  with  the  -fprofile-arcs  and
       -ftest-coverage options to add  the  instrumentation.  (Alternatively,  you  can  use  the
       --coverage  option,  which  includes both of those other options.) You should compile with
       debugging information (-g) and without optimization (-O0); otherwise,  the  coverage  data
       cannot be accurately mapped back to the source code.

       At  the  time  you  compile the instrumented code, a .gcno data file will be generated for
       each object file. These .gcno files contain half of the coverage data. The other  half  of
       the  data comes from .gcda files that are generated when you run the instrumented program,
       with a separate .gcda file for each object file.  Each  time  you  run  the  program,  the
       execution  counts  are  summed into any existing .gcda files, so be sure to remove any old
       files if you do not want their contents to be included.

       By default, the .gcda files are written into the same directory as the object  files,  but
       you  can  override  that  by  setting  the  GCOV_PREFIX  and GCOV_PREFIX_STRIP environment
       variables. The GCOV_PREFIX_STRIP variable specifies a number of directory components to be
       removed  from the start of the absolute path to the object file directory. After stripping
       those directories, the prefix from the GCOV_PREFIX variable is  added.  These  environment
       variables allow you to run the instrumented program on a machine where the original object
       file directories are not accessible, but you will then need to copy the .gcda  files  back
       to the object file directories where llvm-cov gcov expects to find them.

       Once  you  have  generated the coverage data files, run llvm-cov gcov for each main source
       file where you want to examine the coverage results. This should  be  run  from  the  same
       directory where you previously ran the compiler. The results for the specified source file
       are written to a file named by appending a .gcov suffix. A separate output  file  is  also
       created for each file included by the main source file, also with a .gcov suffix added.

       The  basic  content of an .gcov output file is a copy of the source file with an execution
       count and line number prepended to every line. The execution count is shown as - if a line
       does  not  contain  any  executable  code. If a line contains code but that code was never
       executed, the count is displayed as #####.

   OPTIONS
       -a, --all-blocks
              Display all basic blocks. If there are multiple blocks for a single line of  source
              code,  this option causes llvm-cov to show the count for each block instead of just
              one count for the entire line.

       -b, --branch-probabilities
              Display conditional branch probabilities and a summary of branch information.

       -c, --branch-counts
              Display branch counts instead of probabilities (requires -b).

       -f, --function-summaries
              Show a summary of coverage for each function instead of just  one  summary  for  an
              entire source file.

       --help Display available options (--help-hidden for more).

       -l, --long-file-names
              For  coverage output of files included from the main source file, add the main file
              name followed by ## as a prefix to the output file names. This can be combined with
              the  --preserve-paths  option  to use complete paths for both the main file and the
              included file.

       -n, --no-output
              Do not output any .gcov files. Summary information is still displayed.

       -o=<DIR|FILE>, --object-directory=<DIR>, --object-file=<FILE>
              Find objects in DIR or based on FILE's path. If you  specify  a  particular  object
              file,  the  coverage  data files are expected to have the same base name with .gcno
              and .gcda extensions. If you specify a directory, the files are  expected  in  that
              directory with the same base name as the source file.

       -p, --preserve-paths
              Preserve  path components when naming the coverage output files. In addition to the
              source file name,  include  the  directories  from  the  path  to  that  file.  The
              directories  are  separate  by  #  characters,  with  .  directories removed and ..
              directories replaced by ^ characters. When used with the --long-file-names  option,
              this applies to both the main file name and the included file name.

       -u, --unconditional-branches
              Include unconditional branches in the output for the --branch-probabilities option.

       -version
              Display the version of llvm-cov.

   EXIT STATUS
       llvm-cov gcov returns 1 if it cannot read input files.  Otherwise, it exits with zero.

SHOW COMMAND

   SYNOPSIS
       llvm-cov show [options] -instr-profile PROFILE BIN [SOURCES]

   DESCRIPTION
       The  llvm-cov  show  command shows line by line coverage of a binary BIN using the profile
       data PROFILE. It can optionally be filtered to only show the coverage for the files listed
       in SOURCES.

       To  use  llvm-cov  show,  you need a program that is compiled with instrumentation to emit
       profile  and  coverage  data.   To   build   such   a   program   with   clang   use   the
       -fprofile-instr-generate  and  -fcoverage-mapping flags. If linking with the clang driver,
       pass -fprofile-instr-generate to the  link  stage  to  make  sure  the  necessary  runtime
       libraries are linked in.

       The  coverage information is stored in the built executable or library itself, and this is
       what you should pass to llvm-cov show as the BIN argument. The profile data  is  generated
       by  running this instrumented program normally. When the program exits it will write out a
       raw profile file, typically called default.profraw, which can be  converted  to  a  format
       that is suitable for the PROFILE argument using the llvm-profdata merge tool.

   OPTIONS
       -show-line-counts
              Show the execution counts for each line. This is enabled by default, unless another
              -show option is used.

       -show-expansions
              Expand inclusions, such as preprocessor macros or textual inclusions, inline in the
              display of the source file.

       -show-instantiations
              For  source regions that are instantiated multiple times, such as templates in C++,
              show each instantiation separately as well as the combined summary.

       -show-regions
              Show the execution counts for each region by displaying a caret that points to  the
              character where the region starts.

       -show-line-counts-or-regions
              Show  the  execution  counts for each line if there is only one region on the line,
              but show the individual regions if there are multiple on the line.

       -use-color[=VALUE]
              Enable or disable color output. By default this is autodetected.

       -arch=<name>
              If the covered binary is a universal binary, select the architecture to use.  It is
              an error to specify an architecture that is not included in the universal binary or
              to use an architecture that does not match a non-universal binary.

       -name=<NAME>
              Show code coverage only for functions with the given name.

       -name-regex=<PATTERN>
              Show code coverage only for functions that match the given regular expression.

       -line-coverage-gt=<N>
              Show code coverage only for functions with line coverage  greater  than  the  given
              threshold.

       -line-coverage-lt=<N>
              Show  code  coverage  only  for  functions  with  line coverage less than the given
              threshold.

       -region-coverage-gt=<N>
              Show code coverage only for functions with region coverage greater than  the  given
              threshold.

       -region-coverage-lt=<N>
              Show  code  coverage  only  for  functions with region coverage less than the given
              threshold.

REPORT COMMAND

   SYNOPSIS
       llvm-cov report [options] -instr-profile PROFILE BIN [SOURCES]

   DESCRIPTION
       The llvm-cov report command displays a summary of the coverage of a binary BIN  using  the
       profile  data  PROFILE.  It  can  optionally be filtered to only show the coverage for the
       files listed in SOURCES.

       If no source files are provided, a summary line is printed for each file in  the  coverage
       data. If any files are provided, summaries are shown for each function in the listed files
       instead.

       For information on compiling programs for coverage and generating profile data,  see  SHOW
       COMMAND.

   OPTIONS
       -use-color[=VALUE]
              Enable or disable color output. By default this is autodetected.

       -arch=<name>
              If the covered binary is a universal binary, select the architecture to use.  It is
              an error to specify an architecture that is not included in the universal binary or
              to use an architecture that does not match a non-universal binary.

AUTHOR

       Maintained by The LLVM Team (http://llvm.org/).

COPYRIGHT

       2003-2017, LLVM Project