"Dams, Dennis (Dennis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:33 PM | > To: Adam Nemet | > Cc: Ian Lance Taylor; Dams, Dennis (Dennis); [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Subject: Re: -fdump-translation-unit considered harmful | > | > Adam Nemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes: | > | > -fdump-translation-unit doesn't do anything in the C frontend. | > | | > | Is the patch below OK to update documentation accordingly? Tested | > | with make info and make dvi. | > | > OK. | > | > Thanks, | > | > -- Gaby | > | | Have there been any new thoughts/developments on the issue of | elevating the current dump facilities (-fdump-translation-unit, and | the -fdump-tree functionality) to a more formal API?
Not that I'm aware of. Although I understand the utility of this flag, I do believe it is premature and probably not well suited to define any formal API at this point. [...] | It would be great if this behavior could be made part of the current | GCC release. But it would be even better if there could be some | prior agreement, among those who would be interested, about what a | reasonable tree-dump format should look like. I have gone over several formats for improved debugging information, but I think we still need more experience. At any case, it would not be something that will have a formal API. I consider it to be a debugging aid; I would hate to be distracted from technical issues into political matters. -- Gaby
