Re: trunk: PATCH: passes with name starting with dot have no dump file.

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote on 31 July 2008 10:56:
>
> > 2008-07-31  Basile Starynkevitch  <basile@starynkevitch>
> >          * tree-pass.h: Added comment about not dumping passes with name
> >          starting with dot in struct opt_pass.
> >
> >          * passes.c (register_dump_files_1): Don't do dump for a pass with
> >          name starting with dot.
>
>   I'm not a maintainter, so this is just IMHO: please don't invent a new
> convention when we already have a perfectly good one (starred names) that
> everyone is already familiar with from the md files.
>
>   I understand the analogy you mentioned on the main list about Unix dir
> names, but there are absolutely no ways at all in which a compiler pass is
> analagous to a directory (container object in a filing system), so there is
> no logic to the analogy.
>
>   GCC is not the same thing as Unix, so we should use GCC conventions, not
> Unix ones.  That's fine if the GCC convention were based on the Unix one,
> but it's not, so let's not create a new one that is but is otherwise the
> same.  That would be multiplying entities beyond necessity.
>
>   Sorry for being pedantic, but I always have a maintenance programmer's
> view on these kinds of things...


Good point. Should I submit a new trivial patch, or is nobody interested 
in having some way to avoid dump on some passes?

My motivation is still to be able to have every pass being uniquely named.

Regards.
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