[llvm-commits] patch to enable response file support in ParseCommandLineOptions

[Liu, Yaxun (Sam)]

Response file is the conventional name for files serving this purpose. A google search shows the usage of "response file" is not rare. Also it has been used in the LLVM documentation:

http://llvm.org/docs/CommandLine.html#response-files

Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Beaumont-Gay [mailto:matthewbg at google.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:35 PM
To: Liu, Yaxun (Sam)
Cc: Chris Lattner; llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [llvm-commits] patch to enable response file support in ParseCommandLineOptions

Can we call this a "parameters file"? I find "response file" to be non-obvious.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Liu, Yaxun (Sam) <Yaxun.Liu at amd.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris for the comment.
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> Since there is no objection, I attached a new patch which enables 
> response file support and removes the argument for 
> controlling/disabling response file support. The patch also contains a 
> simple test. I did regression check and there are no regressions.
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> Sam
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> From: Chris Lattner [mailto:clattner at apple.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 2:20 PM
> To: Liu, Yaxun (Sam)
> Cc: llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [llvm-commits] patch to enable response file support in 
> ParseCommandLineOptions
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> On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:07 PM, "Liu, Yaxun (Sam)" <Yaxun.Liu at amd.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am sending a patch to enable response file support in 
> ParseCommandLineOptions. With this change, all llvm tools will support 
> response file. This helps overcome the command line length limit which 
> we encountered recently.
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> This seems fine to me.  Is there any reason we *wouldn't* want a tool 
> to read response files?  If all tools should handle it, the argument 
> should just go away.
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> -Chris
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