[m-rev.] for review: Add a hint about trace count file names.
Peter Wang
novalazy at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 11:35:23 AEST 2013
doc/user_guide.texi:
Under "Coverage testing", say how trace count files are named by
default. This repeats information from the section "Generating
trace counts" but saves the user (me) from wondering if coverage
testing actually worked -- trace count files are prefixed with
"." by default so a simple "ls" won't show them.
diff --git a/doc/user_guide.texi b/doc/user_guide.texi
index c7b311d..eccc6d9 100644
--- a/doc/user_guide.texi
+++ b/doc/user_guide.texi
@@ -5636,6 +5636,9 @@ or by including one of the corresponding options
in the value of the @samp{MERCURY_OPTIONS} environment variable.
These runs generate a set of trace counts files
that can be given to the Mercury test coverage tool, the @samp{mcov} program.
+As usual, trace count files are named with the prefix
+ at samp{.mercury_trace_counts} if the @samp{mtc --output-file} option is not
+given.
@sp 1
The @samp{mcov} tool is invoked with a command of the form:
@sp 1
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