The dmd test suite has a few tests that run -profile and -cov. Right now, those all output to the same filename with no non-hacky way of getting to those apis. They're extern(C)'ed, so they can be forced with repeating the extern declaration where needed, but that's awfully ugly. Food for thought.. could the defaults be better? What's the definition of better? Right now, both default to the current directory. Trace defaults to 'trace.log' and 'trace.def'. Cover defaults to sourcefile.lst, if I read the code correctly. Maybe this would be a good place for some env vars to influence the two?
Merely adding the calls to set the trace log files is enough to cause the files to be created, even without -cov. This is due to the calls being enough to drag in the module and it's shared this/~this are invoked. Also, for a simple test case, no trace results other than the file headers are being produced: module hello; extern(C) { int printf(const char*, ...); int trace_setlogfilename(string name); int trace_setdeffilename(string name); } void showargs(char[][] args) { printf("hello world\n"); printf("args.length = %d\n", args.length); for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) printf("args[%d] = '%s'\n", i, cast(char *)args[i]); } int main(char[][] args) { trace_setlogfilename("test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.trace.log"); trace_setdeffilename("test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.trace.def"); showargs(args); return 0; } Results in: :::::::::::::: test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.out :::::::::::::: ../src/dmd -Irunnable -cov -od./test_results/runnable -of./test_results/runnable/hello-profile runnable/hello-profile.d ./test_results/runnable/hello-profile hello world args.length = 1 args[0] = './test_results/runnable/hello-profile' :::::::::::::: test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.trace.def :::::::::::::: FUNCTIONS :::::::::::::: test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.trace.log :::::::::::::: ======== Timer Is 3579545 Ticks/Sec, Times are in Microsecs ======== Num Tree Func Per Calls Time Time Call
Ok.. ignore most of #1, I should have been using -profile instead of -cov. Of course, that just further outlines the problems caused by having the two result files generated with just the column headers merely by setting the destination file names. Compiling with -profile and running the sample code below produces the two files as expected: :::::::::::::: test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.trace.def :::::::::::::: FUNCTIONS _Dmain _D5hello8showargsFAAaZv :::::::::::::: test_results/runnable/hello-profile.d.trace.log :::::::::::::: ------------------ 1 _Dmain _D5hello8showargsFAAaZv 1 141436 141436 ------------------ _Dmain 0 142088 652 1 _D5hello8showargsFAAaZv ======== Timer Is 3579545 Ticks/Sec, Times are in Microsecs ======== Num Tree Func Per Calls Time Time Call 1 39512 39512 39512 _D5hello8showargsFAAaZv 1 39694 182 182 _Dmain
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