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GCC --coverage help, few lines of code are covering and others not.

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While collecting coverage of code, I found few lines of code are covering and others not.
Ex :-
1. If function definiton is not covered, then lines within that functions are covered.
2. Function return statement is covering, even if functions has already returned from if/else conditions.
3. How the branch code is calculated ?. I found some time if(strcmp()), considering 5 branch some time 3
branches.

Could you anybody please explain me internal implementation of gcov or any link. I went through the gcc/coverage.c and other files, could not get much information

posted Jul 2, 2013 by anonymous

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