How to remove unreachable branches from coverage?

[lorediana]

As far as I know, gcovr provides some flags that help in removing unreachable branches (--exclude-unreachable-branches). Is there something like this provided by lcov? I attach and example with the multiple branches detected by lcov for an if-else statement.

[henry2cox]

Afraid you won’t like the answer ☺ Much like your previous issue – I had also implemented a ‘bogus branch filter’ feature (again, in my diffcov branch – pull request but not merged to master). There is a moderately extensive discussion of the issues, limitations, etc. in issues #101 and #75 – as well as in the man page for the --filter option. While I hope this is helpful – I suspect it is not. Henry

[lorediana]

Ok, thanks :(

[henry2cox]

Maybe talk to your IT and/or install a personal copy of the tool – and see if it works for you or not? Our IT is not always cooperative – but it is usually possible to get something installed…especially if you can claim that it is critical for some upcoming IP release ;-)