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As far as I am aware gcc has an option (possibly -a) to allow line-by-line
execution count information to be collected.

However I remember that this information was not in a format for existing
programs to read. The two programs I know about that do a similar job are
tcov (on SunOS) and lprof (under SVr4). With appropriate compilation options
raw data is created from a program run which is then processed.

I am interested in

	1) Does the Gnu stuff already work with one or both of these
	   programs. (I don't think it does).

	2) Does anybody have an interest in getting it working OR is
	   anyone currently working on this


As some justification for the effort involved, after regular profiling using
prof and/or gprof. I then used lprof to determine which lines of large single
functions were executed many times. The routines that showed up with high
usage were then examined and in some cases a further speedup of 20% was achieved

I am just interested as it would be a nice thing to have with gcc.
Unfortunately I do not have the time to look for this and do it myself as I
have other commitments.


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