If the -fprofile-info-section is used, then the gcov information is registered
in a linker set. This is done by build_gcov_info_var_registration(). The
compiler generated object placed in the section was not marked as referenced,
so once optimization was enabled, this object was optimized away. Mark it as
referenced.
gcc/
* coverage.c (build_gcov_info_var_registration): Mark the object placed
in the linker set as referenced so that it does not get optimized away.
#include "auto-profile.h"
#include "profile.h"
#include "diagnostic.h"
+#include "varasm.h"
#include "gcov-io.c"
DECL_NAME (var) = get_identifier (name_buf);
get_section (profile_info_section, SECTION_UNNAMED, NULL);
set_decl_section_name (var, profile_info_section);
+ mark_decl_referenced (var);
DECL_INITIAL (var) = build_fold_addr_expr (gcov_info_var);
varpool_node::finalize_decl (var);
}