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   single: gnatcov convert command line

|gcvcnv| command line

|gcvcnv| converts trace data from foreign sources to the format used by |gcvcov|. The general interface synopsis is available from gnatcov --help:

gnatcov convert --trace-source=SOURCE_ID --exec=EXECUTABLE
  --input=INPUT_TRACE --hw-trigger-traces=START_ID,START_ADDR,STOP_ID
  [OPTIONS]

Details about the available options follow:

:option:`--trace-source` :
An identifier of the source of the input trace data is provided using this option. The input source effects which other options are required. Currently, the only values for this option are iSystem-5634 (see :ref:`GeneratingCoverageInformationFromNexusTraces`) and Trace32-Branchflow (see :ref:`GeneratingCoverageInformationFromLauterbachTrace32`). For the iSystem-5634 source, the --hw-trigger-traces option is required.
:option:`--exec` :
This option provides the filename of a file containing the target executable from which the trace data was generated, and upon which the coverage analysis is done.
:option:`--input` :
This option provides the name of the file containing the input trace data to be converted.
:option:`--output` :
The name of the file to write the output trace into can be provided by by this option. If --output is not used, the output filename is derived from the name of the executable, by taking the basename of the executable file and appending .trace.
:option:`--hw-trigger-traces` :
For Nexus modules that support the Class 4 HW Watchpoint Trigger feature, the generation of program trace data can be started and stopped in response to watchpoint events. When this mechanism is used, in order to interpret the Nexus traces, information about how the triggers were set during the run of the executable needs to be provided. For the iSystem-5634 trace-source, |gcvcnv| allows the use of the Instruction Address Compare registers for the start/stop watchpoints. START_ID is one of IAC1, IAC2, IAC3, or IAC4, and START_ADDR is the address set in the IAC identified by START_ID. The address can be specified numerically using either the usual C syntax (0xHHHH), Ada syntax (16#HHHH_HHHH#), or by providing an ELF symbol table symbol name (e.g. main). STOP_ID can identify another of the IACs, or be 0, to indicate that a stop trigger was not set up.
:option:`--level` :
This is used in an identical manner as for |gcvrun|.
:option:`--scos` :
This is used in an identical manner as for |gcvrun|.