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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: law at redhat dot com, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>, Gerald Pfeifer <gp at suse dot de>,"gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:30:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- Organization: SUSE Labs
- References: <200401172121.i0HLLBqM031117@speedy.slc.redhat.com>
On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:21, law@redhat.com wrote:
> In message <C978C33E-48FB-11D8-AECF-000A95DA505C@dberlin.org>, Daniel
> Berlin wr
>
> ites:
> >> Err, no they aren't. For example we have a host of -f options which
> >> control
> >> debugging dumps rather than code generation. That's wrong.
> >
> >Are you referring to -fdump-tree*?
>
> Yes.
>
> >It is my understanding that this was already there when we started (and
> >in fact, exists on the mainline too), we just extended it.
>
> Really. Well, that's not really a good reason to extend broken practice.
>
> >It seems like a simple renaming job would address that concern anyway.
>
> Yup. But we can't honestly say we follow option/documentation conventions
> knowing that this issue is still unresolved.
Honza and I would like to unify our tree and RTL debug dump handling. I
guess we can move it up on the TODO list if this is an important issue.
Gr.
Steven