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Re: [PATCH, tree-dce]: DCE enh to handle dead calls (not pure)
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Richard Guenther
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It should be useful -- I am not sure why you and Richard are against
>> over-asserting -- there is no such thing :)
>
> It makes the code hard to read and confuses the occasional reader.
Yup!
>> Dump file contains too many stuff that are not needed -- not suitable for
>> auto tools. Besises, info messages/op report are also for users (just like
>> warnings), so internal dump does not make sense.
>
> I beg to differ. I absoultely *hate* the verbosness of the intel
> compiler for example.
And again, yup!
For the auto tools, man invented grep. For that, a more
"standardized" output to the dump files would be helpful, though. I
am not sure if Richi's statistics stuff is already enough...
Gr.
Steven