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Re: -fdump-translation-unit considered harmful (was Re: cp tree question)
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> | Zack Weinberg wrote:
> | > We should get rid of -fdump-translation-unit. It has never done what
> | > people think it does, the output format has never been documented, no
> | > one cares to improve either of those things, and we now have
> | > tree-pretty-print.c which is language-independent and far easier to
> | > read. No, it's not machine parseable, but neither is
> | > -fdump-translation-unit's format, if you really sit down and think
> | > about it.
> |
> | fine by me.
>
> It would be a real mistake. If you don't care about it, and other
> people are using it, that you should leave it useful to those people.
On any sensitive issue like this, dumping the feature would need an SC
decision. If Gaby's willing to maintain it, let it be.