-fwhopr and -flto options reorg

[Diego Novillo]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 16:48, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 04:30:13PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
>> > > On 10-11-11 16:08 , Jan Hubicka wrote:
>> > > >Hi,
>> > > >here is updated patch.  Removing flag_whopr is probably easier than keeping in around
>> > > >given that it is usually used in conjunction with flag_lto.
>> > >
>> > > Great!  Thanks.
>> >
>> > Previously we were running most of the testsuites iterating over flags
>> > with -flto and -fwhopr.  Is that going to change to just -flto now (i.e.
>> > fewer tests)?  That would be very much appreciated...
>> No, I use -flto and -flto-partition=none (that is equivalent of previous -flto).
>>
>> I am not sure how important is to run all the tests with both settings, perhaps we can drop
>> -flto-partition=none for all except for LTO tests or so.
>
> I bet most of the non-LTO tests are small enough that they wouldn't be
> partitioned into multiple partitions anyway, right?

Perhaps.  At the time we were developing whopr, the size of the tests
was usually not a big factor.  Several of the problems we were testing
occurred simply by enabling the whopr machinery.  This is much better
supported today, so we could probably do it.


Diego.