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Re: Adding new feature - Kcov




On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 09:26, Siddharth Muralee <siddharth.muralee%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello, I have attached a modified patch for kcov(4). I have modified
> it to be a per-process lookup instead of the earlier per-unit lookup.
>
> It seems to working fine. I have tested it with a couple of system
> calls. There is however a lot of unnecessary output coming during a
> simple system call. I have attached below the output of kcov(4) for
> the system call `read(-1, NULL, 0)`. I would also like to get some
> input on how to reduce the noise if possible.

Seems like the attachments got missed somewhere along the way (Not sure what happened!).
kcov diff - https://github.com/R3x/scratch-files/blob/master/kcov/kcov.diff
output of kcov(4) for read() - https://github.com/R3x/scratch-files/blob/master/kcov/sample_output.txt

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  Siddharth M
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  Amrita School of Engineering, Kollam
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