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

[Stefan Strasser]

no matter if you should get rid of dump-translation-unit - I was talking 
about the different behaviour of the cp tree interface between versions.
I'm not trying to read dump-translation-unit output, but you can see 
what I mean using it because it also uses the tree interface.
so have there been any major changes to this interface lately or should 
it be reported as a bug when a function which is documented to return 
all decls of a namespace leaves out some?



Zack Weinberg schrieb:
> 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.
> 
> zw
> 
> 



-- 
Stefan Strasser