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From: pgh@stl.stc.co.uk (Peter Hamer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: "Negative Profile"
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Date: 31 Jul 89 10:43:40 GMT
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In article <562@mipos3.intel.com> sundar@mipos2.intel.com (Sundar Iyengar~) writes:
>For lack of a better terminology, by "negative profile", I refer to
>those parts of a program that are NOT touched by current set of
>inputs.

The -tcov option on cc might help you.

Follow on questions -

 1) Does anybody use -tcov regularly? 
 2) Is it available on most C compilers?
 3) ***** Does anybody know of a C++ compiler with a similar option? *****

Peter