We can't just use "diff", since we don't care about changes in line
numbers, or changes in the exact number of times a line was called.
We just care about changes that make lines covered or non-coverd. So
pre-process the files before calling diff.
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright 2013 The Tor Project, Inc.
+# See LICENSE for licensing information.
+
+# cov-diff -- compare two directories full of gcov files.
+
+DIRA="$1"
+DIRB="$2"
+
+for A in $DIRA/*; do
+ B=$DIRB/`basename $A`
+ perl -pe 's/^\s*\d+:/ 1:/; s/^([^:]+:)[\d\s]+:/$1/;' "$A" > "$A.tmp"
+ perl -pe 's/^\s*\d+:/ 1:/; s/^([^:]+:)[\d\s]+:/$1/;' "$B" > "$B.tmp"
+ diff -u "$A.tmp" "$B.tmp"
+ rm "$A.tmp" "$B.tmp"
+done
+