[PATCH] Explain in docs that assertions must be enabled to use the -stats flag
Rob Stewart
robstewart57 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 09:18:04 PST 2015
On llvm-dev there was a recent question about -stats, namely that it did not print out statistics about passes with the -stats `opt` flag.
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-February/082409.html
The answer is that assertions must be enabled.
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-February/082461.html
This commit adds that information to the programmers manual document.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D7812
Files:
docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
Index: docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
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--- docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
+++ docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
@@ -488,6 +488,9 @@
$ opt -stats -mypassname < program.bc > /dev/null
... statistics output ...
+Note that in order to use the '``-stats``' option, LLVM must be
+compiled with assertions enabled.
+
When running ``opt`` on a C file from the SPEC benchmark suite, it gives a
report that looks like this:
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