Re: automating gcov with third-party extensions

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 05:22:24PM -0400, Adam Baratz wrote: > I had a positive experience using gcov with a C extension. I used it to get > a better sense of what the .phpt tests (and valgrind) were really telling > me. > > To get it to work in an automated way, I hacked out Makefile.gcov and some > relevant chunks of config.m4 from php-src. I'm wondering if there would be > value in getting phpize to produce some of this. Am I right in guessing > that other people want to do things like this? > > Thanks, > Adam Hey Adam! It was a pain, but I managed to get gcov running without making any changes to build stuff. The most important stuff was EXTRA_LDFLAGS so the build process wouldn't blow away the gcno https://github.com/php/pecl-math-stats/blob/master/.travis.yml The I ship it off to a third party service, which gives really nice visualizations. When bugs hit is gives a quick way to guesstimate where they are. https://codecov.io/gh/Sean-Der/pecl-mail-mailparse/src/php7/php_mailparse_mime.c