[LLVMdev] Binary output to cout on Windows

[Michael Smith]

Hi Reid,

llvm-as interprets "-" as using standard output (cout), so llvm-as <
input.ll -o - | opt has the same behavior. You'll actually find a
comment on it in llvm-as.cpp, so I guess I shouldn't hold out hope that
there's a good way to do it.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Reid Spencer
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:34 PM
To: LLVM Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Binary output to cout on Windows

Hi Michael,

LLVM uses the standard C++ library for this output. If LLVM opens the
file, it is opened in binary mode. However, LLVM is inheriting this file
descriptor from the shell in your example (std::cout) so we don't/can't
change the  open mode. You might want to try this instead:

llvm-as < input.ll -o output.bc OR llvm-as < input.ll -o - | opt

Reid.

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:43 -0700, Michael Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to resolve an issue that occurs in the native Windows
> implementation of LLVM (it probably doesn't occur in Cygwin, but I
> haven't checked). Namely, when calling
> 
>             llvm-as < input.ll > output.bc     OR     llvm-as <
> input.ll | opt
> 
> outputting to cout is adding \r (the CR character) to newlines. This
> specifically causes problems in WriterContext::write(...) in
> lib/Support/Compressor.cpp. Is anyone aware of a way to use a binary
> mode on cout in Windows (compiled with Visual Studio .NET 2003), or at
> least disable the inclusion of \r? It would be nice to allow the pipe
> functionality if it can be done cleanly.
> 
>  
> 
> ~Michael
> 
> 
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