LCOV/GCOV branch coverage with C++ producing branches all over the place

Question

We are using LCOV/GCOV to produce test coverage of our projects. Recently we tried to enable branch-coverage additionally. But it looks like, this just doesn\'t yield the re

Answer 1

GCC will add a bunch of exception handling stuff. Especially when you do function calls.

You can fix this by adding -fno-exceptions -fno-inline to your build.

I should add, you probably only want these flags on for testing. So something like this:

g++ -O0 --coverage -fno-exceptions -fno-inline main.cpp -o test-coverage