-fdump-translation-unit considered harmful (was Re: cp tree question)

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Sat Dec 18 09:39:00 GMT 2004


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.

nathan

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