Code coverage tests

This page documents the degree to which the PARI/GP source code is tested by our public test suite, distributed with the source distribution in directory src/test/. This is measured by the gcov utility; we then process gcov output using the lcov frond-end.

We test a few variants depending on Configure flags on the pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr machine (x86_64 architecture), and agregate them in the final report:

The target is to exceed 90% coverage for all mathematical modules (given that branches depending on DEBUGLEVEL or DEBUGMEM are not covered). This script is run to produce the results below.

LCOV - code coverage report
Current view: top level - language - compile.c (source / functions) Hit Total Coverage
Test: PARI/GP v2.18.1 lcov report (development 30733-eb2d773d38) Lines: 1599 1779 89.9 %
Date: 2026-03-03 09:24:12 Functions: 88 91 96.7 %
Legend: Lines: hit not hit

Function Name Sort by function name Hit count Sort by hit count
closure_deriv 0
closuretoinl 0
debug_context 0
pari_translate_string 4
compileunexport 6
compileuninline 6
L_compile_err 7
U_compile_err 7
localvars_find 7
matchQ 8
call0 28
compilelocal 28
str_defproto 39
compileexport 41
pack_localvars 53
localpush 70
closure_derivn 112
strtofunction 119
getvardyn 131
push_frame 259
compilelambda 339
countmatrixelts 427
compilestate_reset 452
compilenewptr 840
strtoclosure 1820
compilelvalue 1834
op_insert_loc 2975
compilemy 3420
countvar 3448
is_node_zero 4120
ctxmvar 9620
compilemat 9674
optimizemat 9674
closurefunc 10574
localvars_read_str 10992
compilematcoeff 13554
optimizematcoeff 14548
compileseq 15095
optimizeseq 15095
matindex_type 15668
getclosure 20240
compilefuncinline 20488
checkdups 20682
compilecall 23305
optimizecall 23312
fetch_member_raw 25263
compilestore 45872
cattovec 48560
getlvalue 49489
compilestate_restore 56422
var_push 65320
getvar 83662
access_push 115277
addcopy 270959
getentry 365326
pari_close_compiler 372069
pari_init_compiler 373649
detag 433932
gp_closure 936741
compilestate_save 1431216
strntoGENexp 3822297
translate 3822301
data_push 4804114
snm_closure 9166267
genclosurectx 9167914
genclosure 9178658
genctx 9183071
frame_push 9192758
getfunction 10136440
getcodepos 10136458
optimizefunc 10756987
compilefunc 10761774
getmvar 11129866
gcopyunclone 13996829
compilevec 15459478
optimizevec 15460710
vec_optimize 15557188
compilecast 18601079
first_safe_arg 21577578
get_ret_type 21690242
getfunc 21921157
compilecast_loc 27770850
compilesmall 30548310
countlisttogen 52626411
listtogen 52626411
compilenode 52934482
optimizenode 62080795
op_push 115707385
is_func_named 118332698
parseproto 154105322
op_push_loc 159675349

Generated by: LCOV version 1.16