davel@pixar.UUCP (David Longerbeam) (06/06/90)
Hello all, I am asking if anyone can help me in my search for a path coverage analyzer (profiler) for the Mac. This utility is used to determine the percentage of source code statements exercised by a test suite. I'd appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance! Please respond by email to (UUCP): ucbvax!pixar!davel - or - sun!pixar!davel Regards, Dave Longerbeam Pixar San Rafael, California -- David Longerbeam || Any opinions expressed are Pixar || those of the author and not San Rafael, CA || necessarily of Pixar. ucbvax!pixar!davel
rick@claris.com (Rick Boarman) (06/06/90)
If you find a good coverage tool please let us all know!! I've checked out
a few and so far they all are pretty poor. They require extensive
modifications to be made to your source. Some only work for Pascal and
not for C or C++.
Why can't someone (Jasik?) create a tool that uses the .SYM and .MAP files
to monitor the program at interrupt or instruction trace level? It sounds
so easy...
Rick
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Opinions are mine alone and do not reflect Claris policy.siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (06/06/90)
In article <11055@claris.com> rick@claris.com (Rick Boarman) writes: > >If you find a good coverage tool please let us all know!! I've checked out >a few and so far they all are pretty poor. They require extensive >modifications to be made to your source. Some only work for Pascal and >not for C or C++. > >Why can't someone (Jasik?) create a tool that uses the .SYM and .MAP files >to monitor the program at interrupt or instruction trace level? It sounds >so easy... It sounds easy, but it is in fact highly nontrivial. Both THINK Pascal and THINK C come with code profilers; THINK C's can profile at the function level, and THINK Pascal's can profile at the statement level. Neither requires any modification of the source, except for calls to initialize and terminate profiling and to dump the results. R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~