[comp.lang.fortran] ? Path Flow Analysis tool for F77

garyk@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Gary Koerzendorfer) (03/26/91)

Is there a path flow analysis tool available for F77? If you aren't familiar,
PFA is a testing technique of counting how many times each path is taken
in a program to ensure that the tests exercise as many paths as possible.

The tools I am familiar with implement this on one of two ways, either
as a compile option, or as a preprocessor that creates a new source file
with added lines that increment a counter every time they're hit. Either
way there are accompanying post-run tools to process the counters and 
correlate with the source. My compiler, on the HP1000, does not provide this
capability.

I'm new to c.l.f and the language, so I will not have read any previous
discussions on this topic.

If you email I'll summarize to the group.

Thanks, Gary

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garyk@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Gary Koerzendorfer) (03/27/91)

In my original note I should have emphasized that the system in question
is an HP1000 RTE (realtime executive) system, not a unix box. Therefore,
a source preprocessor would be the more portable solution.

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Gary Koerzendorfer                    (415) 857-4317
Hewlett-Packard Co.                       1-857-4317
Scientific Instruments Div. 17U       garyk@hpsid.sid.hp.com
1601 California Ave.                  Gary Koerzendorfer/HP2300
Palo Alto, Calif. 94304
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