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coverage: allow excluding lines again

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#7,606 opened on Jul 17, 2019

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Description

We lost this with the switch to llvm-cov. This is being tracked in: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34277. We should pick up whatever solution is determined there.

If someone out there wants to contribute help to llvm-cov to fix this that would be awesome.

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Research direction
Investigate the LLVM bug 34277 and determine the appropriate solution to re enable line exclusion in coverage.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
testinginfrastructure
Issue type
Bug
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
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Active
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Needs investigation
Prerequisites
C++LLVMcoverage tools
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20