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Re: [graphite] Cleanup of command line parameters
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Sebastian Pop <sebpop@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Richard Guenther
> <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Note that we cannot really remove switches from the user, but we have to at
>> least keep them as no-op for backward compatibility. Which is why I would
>> like you to think twice at least as to what options you want to add for 4.4.
>> As a rule of thumb, do not add (or at least document) options that are not
>> useful for users of GCC but only developers of GCC. Maybe you can add a
>> glob for debugging options with -fdebug-graphite-XXX instead?
>>
>
> We can enable the -fgraphite-* flags only when ENABLE_CHECKING is defined,
> such that these are disabled in the released compilers.
I think that you can keep them enabled without ENABLE_CHECKING. But I suggest
to remove user-level documentation of them (documentation in common.opt comments
should be enough).
Thanks,
Richard.