[lldb-dev] Auditing dotest's command line options

[Greg Clayton via lldb-dev]

Zach, I would also like to get rid of all global variables in the process of this change. The history goes like this: a long time ago someone wrote the initial dotest.py and parsed the options manually and stored results in global variables. Later, someone converted the options over to use a python library to parse the options, but we mostly copied the options from the options dictionary over into the globals and still use the globals all over the code. It would be great if we had at most one global variable that is something like "g_options" and anyone that was using any global variables will switch over to use the "g_options.XXXX" instead. Then we don't have to make copies and we can let the g_options contain all settings that are required.

> On Nov 18, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Zachary Turner via lldb-dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> I would like to do a complete audit of dotest's command line options, find out who's using what, and then potentially delete anything that isn't being used.  There's a mess of command line options in use, to the point that it's often hard to find free letters to use for new options.
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> I created this spreadsheet with a complete list of command line options, their descriptions, and a place for people to enter what options they're using or do not want to be deleted.
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> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wkxAY7l0_cJOHhhsSlh3aKKlQShlX1D7X1Dn8kpqxy4/edit?usp=sharing
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> If someone has already written YES in the box that indicates they need the option, please don't overwrite it.  If you write YES in a box, please provide at least a small rationale for why this option is useful to you.  Feel free to add additional rationale if someone has already added some rationale.
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> I'm going to have a couple days in mid-December and do this cleanup, so I'd like to get a solid picture of what options are not needed before then.  After people have had some time to look over this, I'll go through the results and decide what to do with each one, and then send out another email with a proposed action column for each command line option.  
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> Please do take the time to have a look at this, because any option that doesn't have a YES in it after a couple of weeks I'm going to assume is a candidate for deletion.
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