Re: .gcov fontification in compile.el

[Juri Linkov]

> There are a few issues with that, all the lines in the qcov use the
> `underline' face. This is kind of distracting and it does not help in
> any way.

This unnecessary fontification can be removed by deleting
".+$" from the end of gcov-never-called-line and gcov-called-line.

> The fontification of lines that use the full length of the counter
> field is incorrect.
> Example:
>
> 116305350: 1328:  for (i = 0; i < nodes; i++) {
>
>    (gcov-called-line
>      "^ +[-0-9]+: +\\([1-9]\\|[0-9]\\{2,\\}\\):.*$" nil 1 nil 0)
>        ^^^^
>        Shouldn't ? be used instead of + here?

Maybe this space was added to avoid false matches with other outputs?

-- 
Juri Linkov
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