Additional control options control defect generation. The impact option
selects the defects to be reported from among the flaws detected by the analysis. The
flaws are categorized as having Low, Medium or
High impact, based on how the nature of the flaw. These correspond
to informational [I], warning [W] and error [E] message in the text output files.
The --append option allows the outputs from subsequent invocations of
cov-run-fortran to be combined. By default, the results from one
invocation of cov-run-fortran overwrite any results already present in
the intermediate directory. The --strip-path option can be used to
remove a common prefix from filenames store in the intermediate directory. This reduces
storage requirements and improves the speed of cov-commit-defects.