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@@ -707,6 +707,19 @@ make coverage-html
</para>
<para>
+ If you don't have <command>lcov</command> or prefer text output over an
+ HTML report, you can also run
+<screen>
+make coverage
+</screen>
+ instead of <literal>make coverage-html</literal>, which will
+ produce <filename>.gcov</filename> output files for each source file
+ relevant to the test. (<literal>make coverage</literal> and <literal>make
+ coverage-html</literal> will overwrite each other's files, so mixing them
+ might be confusing.)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
To reset the execution counts between test runs, run:
<screen>
make coverage-clean