Re: Bogus reports from coverage.postgresql.org

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> >> Is it specifically "lcov" we are considering here? If so, we are on
> version
> >> 1.13, and there is no newer version packaged for debian or from what I
> can
> >> tell even released?
>
> > It could also be a compiler issue, I believe.
>
> Actually, looking closer, it appears that lcov is just translating
> gcov's textual output into HTML, so that the error is probably to
> be blamed on gcc or gcov. And at least on RHEL, those come from
> the same package:
>
> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/gcov
> gcc-4.4.7-18.el6.x86_64
>
> So if you're up2date on gcc, we might have material for a gcc bug report
> here. I'll try to reproduce it on recent Fedora, and if so file something
> at Red Hat.
>

The current gcc version in debin stable is:

mha(at)galvin:~$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516

(and yes, gcov is in the gcc package on Debian as well)

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