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Re: [PATCH] Kill -fdump-translation-unit
On Wed, 10 May 2017, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Can it at least be taken out of -fdump-tree-all? It is huge, often larger
> than the sum of all the other dump files, and don't remember ever using it
> for anything.
Yes, apart from advertising the capability I don't imagine it's useful to
produce that dump without a special flag.
> Instead of trying to write a parser for it and reconstructing
> something you can then later analyze, isn't it better to just write a plugin
> that can analyze it directly?
I think I can understand people writing a parser when it's sufficient; it won't
need to be recompiled for a specific compiler version (with headers from that
compiler), won't crash the compiler if you did something wrong. For people more
familiar with a dynamic language like Python than C/C++ it may be just more
comfortable to do it that way.
Alexander