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Re: [PATCH] Add option for dumping to stderr (issue6190057)


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Sharad Singhai <singhai@google.com> wrote:
> In response to the recent comments, I have updated the patch to do the
> following:
>
> - Remove pass handling from -fopt-info
> - Support additional flags in regular dumps
>
> I have massaged the options so that they have the following (hopefully
> clearer) behavior:
>
> gcc ... -fopt-info ....   ---> dump all optimization info on stderr
> gcc ... -fopt-info-missed-optimized=file.txt  --> dump info about
> optimization applied as well as missed opportunities on to file.txt.
> If no file.txt is provided, then use stderr.
>
> I have enhanced regular dump flags, so that values accepted by
> -fopt-info are also accepted. For example,
> gcc ... -O2 -ftree-vectorize -fdump-tree-vect-optimized=foo.dump
>
> Now foo.dump will include the regular tree-vect dump as well as the
> output of -fopt-info=optimized. This way developers can get more
> detailed dumps when needed.
>
> I have also changed the meaning of dump option "details" to include
> optimization details. Thus "-details" flag implies
> "-missed-optimized-note" in addition to other dumps.
>
> The pass level filtering of -fopt-info dumps can be done in a follow
> up patch. It may even turn out to be unnecessary, because the
> equivalent effect can be achieved by
> -ftree-PASS-optimized-missed-note.
>

Richard's suggestion to map high level 'pass' names to internal passes
and make it available to -fopt-info filtering for end users as a
follow up pass will be useful.

thanks,

David



> I have bootstrapped and tested the attached patch on x86_64 and didn't
> observe any new failures. Okay for trunk?
>
> Thanks,
> Sharad


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