That is certainly a possibility. The original motivation was to implement -fopt-info correctly. If there are other use cases, then I can enhance the patch.
Thanks, Sharad On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Sharad Singhai <sing...@google.com> wrote: >> This is the first patch for planned improvements to dump >> infrastructure. Please reference the discussion in >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-10/msg02088.html. >> >> The following small patch allows selective tree and rtl dumps on >> stderr instead of named files. Later -fopt-info can be implemented in >> form of -fdump-xxx-stderr. > > Instead of -fdump-xxx-stderr, it will be better to have > > -fdump-xxx=yyy > > where yyy is a path to a file, with "stderr" and "stdout" having > special meaning. > > -- Gaby
