Feature-deliberations: coverage
Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jul 2024 15:43:56 -0700
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[ Background: I’m working on (very trivial and standard) routines in
low-dim linear programming. They are very simple, but take A LOT of
branching. Absolutely unclear how to debug… ]
Suppose we have a new default “storecoverage”. The code compiled with
this default enabled reserves storage for collecting the info on which
branches of if()s, &&'s, ||'s (and possibly while()/until()'s) were
not yet taken.
This seems to be very low-cost and easy/(trivial?) to implement.
Then I may imagine
reportcoverage(foo)
to list non-fully covered branches (each in the same format as if an
error happened at this place. And then maybe also
used_named_subroutines(foo)
to be able to do this recursively (maybe anonymous too?).
This seems to be handable — but maybe there are easier ways to do the
same/similar things?!
Thanks,
Ilya