r305745 - [docs] Coverage: Improve the wording a bit

Vedant Kumar via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jun 19 14:26:04 PDT 2017


Author: vedantk
Date: Mon Jun 19 16:26:04 2017
New Revision: 305745

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=305745&view=rev
Log:
[docs] Coverage: Improve the wording a bit

Modified:
    cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst

Modified: cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst?rev=305745&r1=305744&r2=305745&view=diff
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--- cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/docs/SourceBasedCodeCoverage.rst Mon Jun 19 16:26:04 2017
@@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ Drawbacks and limitations
 =========================
 
 * Prior to version 2.26, the GNU binutils BFD linker is not able link programs
-  with coverage enabled when the ``--gc-sections`` is enabled. The suggested
-  workaround is to either upgrade to a newer version of BFD, or to use the Gold
-  linker.
+  compiled with ``-fcoverage-mapping`` in its ``--gc-sections`` mode.  Possible
+  workarounds include disabling ``--gc-sections``, upgrading to a newer version
+  of BFD, or using the Gold linker.
 
 * Code coverage does not handle unpredictable changes in control flow or stack
   unwinding in the presence of exceptions precisely. Consider the following




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