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Re: [RFA:] change back name of initial rtl dump suffix to ".rtl".
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- Cc: paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:59:11 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [RFA:] change back name of initial rtl dump suffix to ".rtl".
- Organization: SuSE Linux AG
- References: <200502211040.j1LAeA2d023381@ignucius.se.axis.com>
On Feb 21, 2005 11:40 AM, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:19:59 +0100
> > From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch>
>
> > > Do you know of a reason why that isn't on by default?
> >
> > Because -fdump-rtl-expand-detailed includes *two* copies of the RTL: one
> > lacks the prologue and epilogue but is interleaved with trees, the other
> > is the standard -fdump-rtl-expand dump.
>
> That's not really a compelling reason to make it optional; we're
> talking dumps that are supposed to be maximally informational!
No, they're supposed to provide just the information that is
useful to whoever is looking at the dumps. Sometimes the more
elaborate dumps are useful, most of the time they are not.
Gr.
Steven