merging methods differently ordered in jcov files

Name: kbR10066 Date: 08/06/2000



Merger utility fails to merge jcov data files containing coverage data
for the same class when the order of its methods in one jcov file is
different from that order in the other jcov file. For example,
while merging two jcov data files A.jcov and B.jcov (see below) :

> java javasoft.sqe.jcov.mergeMain A.jcov B.jcov

merger produces the following output :

Different sections for class a

and coverage data for the class 'a' is not actually merged.
Here are A.jcov and B.jcov (the order of methods 'main' and '<init>'
is inversed) :

---- A.jcov ----
JCOV-DATA-FILE-VERSION: 2.0
CLASS: a [public]
SRCFILE: /export/home/work/jcov/a.java
TIMESTAMP: 965622312981
DATA: B
#kind line position count
METHOD: <init>()V [public]
2 1 13 0
3 1 13 0
METHOD: main([Ljava/lang/String;)V [public static]
1 2 37 1
3 3 67 1
----------------

---- B.jcov ----
JCOV-DATA-FILE-VERSION: 2.0
CLASS: a [public]
SRCFILE: /export/home/work/jcov/a.java
TIMESTAMP: 965622312981
DATA: B
#kind line position count
METHOD: main([Ljava/lang/String;)V [public static]
1 2 37 1
3 3 67 1
METHOD: <init>()V [public]
2 1 13 0
3 1 13 0
----------------

When the order of the methods 'main' and '<init>' is the same in both
files, merger works OK.

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