Bug 1577508

Summary: gcov-8 warns about 'arcs to entry block' for each function of votca-tools
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christoph Junghans <junghans>
Component: gccAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 28CC: aoliva, davejohansen, dmalcolm, fweimer, jakub, janisozaur+redhat, jwakely, law, mpolacek, msebor, nickc, rianquinn
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Description Christoph Junghans 2018-05-12 15:28:28 UTC
Description of problem:

When using gcov-8 on f28, I get a warning like:
./tools/src/libtools/CMakeFiles/votca_tools.dir/graphnode.cc.gcno:'_ZdlPvS_' has arcs to entry block
./tools/src/libtools/CMakeFiles/votca_tools.dir/graphnode.cc.gcno:'_ZdlPvS_' has arcs from exit block

for each function. Usually that happens when g++ and gcov are different versions, but that isn't the case here.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)
gcov --version
gcov (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)


How reproducible:
I used the f28 and f27 docker container to ensure this is not my system, which got updated many times since installed with f23.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install 'dnf-command(builddep)'
2. dnf builddep votca-tools
3. dnf install git make gcc-c++ findutils
4. git clone --recursive --depth 1 https://github.com/votca/votca
5. cd votca
6. mkdir build
7. cd build
8. cmake -DWITH_GMX=OFF -DENABLE_TESTING=ON -DENABLE_COVERAGE_BUILD=ON ..
9. make votca_property
10. ctest -R votca_property
11. find . -name "*.gcda" -exec gcov {} +


Actual results:
No warning - is the case on f27

Expected results:
1000s of 'arcs to entry block' and 'arcs to exit block' warning - is the case on f28

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christoph Junghans 2018-05-17 21:49:10 UTC
And I think, I mixed up expected and actual results.

Comment 2 Rian Quinn 2018-09-23 13:52:08 UTC
Was this ever fixed? I am seeing the same issue with GCC 8. GCC 6 seems to turn off support for C++17, so at the moment, attempting to get a coverage report from GCC seems to be limited to GCC 7 if you want C++17 support.

Comment 3 Jonathan Wakely 2018-09-24 09:29:09 UTC
What do you mean "turn off support for C++17"?

GCC 6 was released in 2016 so obviously its support for C++17 is limited, but it doesn't turn anything off.

Comment 4 Rian Quinn 2018-09-24 11:13:40 UTC
When I enabled coverage support in GCC 6, it complains about nested namespaces and maybe_unused, as if they are not a thing (almost like it turned off support for C++17). Works fine with GCC 6 so long as I don't turn on coverage. Whatever the issue is, it was addressed in GCC 7 as it works fine. 

Here is an example of what I am talking about:
https://travis-ci.org/Bareflank/hypervisor/jobs/432120401

Here is an example of the GCC 8 issue:
https://travis-ci.org/Bareflank/hypervisor/jobs/432130712


- Rian

Comment 5 Jonathan Wakely 2018-09-24 11:32:20 UTC
(In reply to Rian Quinn from comment #4)
> Here is an example of what I am talking about:
> https://travis-ci.org/Bareflank/hypervisor/jobs/432120401

That complains about this syntax:

/home/travis/build/Bareflank/hypervisor/bfvmm/src/memory_manager/memory_manager.cpp:395:43: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘;’ token
     if (auto iter = m_virt_map.find(upper); iter != m_virt_map.end()) {
                                           ^

And that's because GCC 6.4 doesn't support that C++17 feature, at all, with or without coverage enabled.

Comment 6 Rian Quinn 2018-09-24 18:27:07 UTC
Huh.... your right. I could have sworn we had it compiling with 6 without coverage, but we don't, its only set up for 7 and above. Well, that explains that specific issue. Doesn't solve the issue with 8 though.

Comment 7 Jonathan Wakely 2018-09-25 10:24:28 UTC
Christoph's original report doesn't seem to be related to C++17, as votca-tools builds with -std=c++11 and still produces these warnings.

Comment 8 Christoph Junghans 2018-09-25 12:42:04 UTC
(In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #7)
> Christoph's original report doesn't seem to be related to C++17, as
> votca-tools builds with -std=c++11 and still produces these warnings.

That is correct, I saw it for a bunch of C++11 builds, e.g. votca-tools, votca-csg, espresso++, flecsi.

Comment 9 Rian Quinn 2018-09-25 16:05:11 UTC
We are only using C++17, but I would agree that this is likely not related to C++17 at all.

Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 20:50:42 UTC
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