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<h3 class="section">11.2 Invoking <samp><span class="command">gcov-tool</span></samp></h3>
<pre class="smallexample"> gcov-tool <span class="roman">[</span><var>global-options</var><span class="roman">]</span> SUB_COMMAND <span class="roman">[</span><var>sub_command-options</var><span class="roman">]</span> <var>profile_dir</var>
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<p><samp><span class="command">gcov-tool</span></samp> accepts the following options:
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<dt><code>-h</code><dt><code>--help</code><dd>Display help about using <samp><span class="command">gcov-tool</span></samp> (on the standard output), and
exit without doing any further processing.
<br><dt><code>-v</code><dt><code>--version</code><dd>Display the <samp><span class="command">gcov-tool</span></samp> version number (on the standard output),
and exit without doing any further processing.
<br><dt><code>merge</code><dd>Merge two profile directories.
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<dt><code>-v</code><dt><code>--verbose</code><dd>Set the verbose mode.
<br><dt><code>-o </code><var>directory</var><dt><code>--output </code><var>directory</var><dd>Set the output profile directory. Default output directory name is
<var>merged_profile</var>.
<br><dt><code>-w </code><var>w1</var><code>,</code><var>w2</var><dt><code>--weight </code><var>w1</var><code>,</code><var>w2</var><dd>Set the merge weights of the <var>directory1</var> and <var>directory2</var>,
respectively. The default weights are 1 for both.
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<br><dt><code>rewrite</code><dd>Read the specified profile directory and rewrite to a new directory.
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<dt><code>-v</code><dt><code>--verbose</code><dd>Set the verbose mode.
<br><dt><code>-o </code><var>directory</var><dt><code>--output </code><var>directory</var><dd>Set the output profile directory. Default output name is <var>rewrite_profile</var>.
<br><dt><code>-s </code><var>float_or_simple-frac_value</var><dt><code>--scale </code><var>float_or_simple-frac_value</var><dd>Scale the profile counters. The specified value can be in floating point value,
or simple fraction value form, such 1, 2, 2/3, and 5/3.
<br><dt><code>-n </code><var>long_long_value</var><dt><code>--normalize <long_long_value></code><dd>Normalize the profile. The specified value is the max counter value
in the new profile.
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<br><dt><code>overlap</code><dd>Computer the overlap score between the two specified profile directories.
The overlap score is computed based on the arc profiles. It is defined as
the sum of min (p1_counter[i] / p1_sum_all, p2_counter[i] / p2_sum_all),
for all arc counter i, where p1_counter[i] and p2_counter[i] are two
matched counters and p1_sum_all and p2_sum_all are the sum of counter
values in profile 1 and profile 2, respectively.
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<dt><code>-v</code><dt><code>--verbose</code><dd>Set the verbose mode.
<br><dt><code>-h</code><dt><code>--hotonly</code><dd>Only print info for hot objects/functions.
<br><dt><code>-f</code><dt><code>--function</code><dd>Print function level overlap score.
<br><dt><code>-F</code><dt><code>--fullname</code><dd>Print full gcda filename.
<br><dt><code>-o</code><dt><code>--object</code><dd>Print object level overlap score.
<br><dt><code>-t </code><var>float</var><dt><code>--hot_threshold <float></code><dd>Set the threshold for hot counter value.
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