Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen: fix gcov compilation

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH 3/4] xen: fix gcov compilation"):
> Currently enabling gcov in hypervisor won't build because although
> 26c9d03d ("gcov: Adding support for coverage information") claimed that
> %.init.o files were excluded from applying compilation options, it was
> in fact not true.
> 
> Fix that by filtering out the options correctly. Due to the dependency
> of stub.o in x86 EFI build can't be eliminated easily and we prefer a
> generalised method going forward, we introduce nogov-y to explicitly
                                                    ^
> mark objects that don't need to build with gcov support.

And I'm afraid the second sentence there is not comprehensible.  It
seesm to be "Due to X, Y" but I can't quite figure out which parts of
the sentence are X and which are Y.

I'm not unhappy with the approach in the Makefile, though.

Ian.

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