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Coverage Analisys with lcov and FATE

Build with coverage annotation (using gcov). Libav has a builtin support for gcov
```
 ./configure --toolchain=gcov
```
- gcov is supported by gcc and clang currently
reset the lcov coverage data
```
 lcov --directory . --zerocounters
```
run fate
```
 make fate
```

collect the coverage information

 lcov --directory . --capture --output-file coverage.info

generate an human readable report

 mkdir lcov-output
 genhtml -o lcov-output coverage.info

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 Libav has a builtin support for gcov
+ * Build with coverage annotation (using gcov).  Libav has a builtin support for gcov