Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 07/14] fuzz/x86_emulate: Rename the file containing the wrapper code

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 05:43:36PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> When generating coverage output, by default gcov generates output
> filenames based only on the coverage file and the "leaf" source file,
> not the full path.  As a result, it uses the same name for
> x86_emulate.c and x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c, generally overwriting the
> second (which we actually are about) with the first (which is just a
> wrapper).
> 
> Rename the user-space wrapper helpers to x86_emulate_user.[ch], so
> that it generates separate files.
> 
> There is actually an option to gcov, `--preserve-paths`, which will
> cause the full path name to be included in the filename, properly
> distinguishing between the two.  However, given that the user-space
> wrapper doesn't actually do any emulation (and the poor state of gcov
> documentation making it difficult to find the option in the first
> place), it seems to make more sense to rename the file anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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