From: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:10:37 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gcov: Reword comment for gcov_read_string()
X-Git-Tag: upstream/12.2.0~767
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63cd7cef7e0f49fa557c5f694dbbd2e68de1f822;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgcc.git

gcov: Reword comment for gcov_read_string()

gcc/

	* gcov-io.cc (gcov_read_string): Reword documentation comment.
---

diff --git a/gcc/gcov-io.cc b/gcc/gcov-io.cc
index c2e9e2b6..72c40f8 100644
--- a/gcc/gcov-io.cc
+++ b/gcc/gcov-io.cc
@@ -473,9 +473,9 @@ mangle_path (char const *base)
 /* We need to expose the below function when compiling for gcov-tool.  */
 
 #if !IN_LIBGCOV || defined (IN_GCOV_TOOL)
-/* Read string from coverage file. Returns a pointer to a static
-   buffer, or NULL on empty string. You must copy the string before
-   calling another gcov function.  */
+/* Read string from coverage file.  Allocate the buffer for the string
+   from the heap or die.  Return a pointer to the string, or NULL on
+   empty string.  */
 
 GCOV_LINKAGE const char *
 gcov_read_string (void)