[PATCH] D63013: [llvm-dwarfdump] Add -o to help text and remove --out-file from documentation

Adrian Prantl via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jun 10 16:15:16 PDT 2019


aprantl accepted this revision.
aprantl added a comment.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.

In D63013#1536440 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D63013#1536440>, @jhenderson wrote:

> In D63013#1535260 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D63013#1535260>, @aprantl wrote:
>
> > I'm mildly against this change. IIRC, the idea was that --out-file is a long-form option that nobody uses in practice and we wanted people to prefer -o instead, which is what people are most familiar with working with  compilers. So if -o shows up in the --help output, I'd leave it at that.
>
>
> Could we just delete --out-file, if we don't want people to use it?


Not any more, I'm afraid :-)
Once an option is out there we will no doubt get complaints that we broke somebody's scripts if we remove it.


Repository:
  rL LLVM

CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION
  https://reviews.llvm.org/D63013/new/

https://reviews.llvm.org/D63013





More information about the llvm-commits mailing list