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Re: [PATCH]: Add dump switch globbing
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:50, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:40, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> > Q. Do we actually want/need both?
> >
> > ie, -fdump-tree-blah would give us blah1, blah2 ... blahN dumps
> > and -fdump-tree-blah2 would give us just blah2?
> >
> Yeah. That's the first thing I asked Dan as well, and that'd be the
> behaviour with his patch. That's exactly what I was looking for, but
> apparently not everyone agrees that it's a good thing.
>
> I want -fdump-tree-blah to give blah1 ... blahN. And -fdump-tree-blah2
> to just give me blah2. This becomes really important for big tests like
> cc1-i-files and DLV that tend to fill up filesystems pretty quickly.
This is also precisely what I requested. You only get globbing if you
ask for it.
I think it happened "accidentally" before because the first rtl pass
didn't get a digit appended to it, so gcse1 was being called gcse. In
order to ask for gcse1 with 'gcse', so then you got globbed.
Andrew