[LLVMdev] Opinions Wanted: New asm Comments

[David A. Greene]

Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:

>> Ok, in that case I think we'll need a TableGen flag to control whether
>> this information gets generated.  A debug build would include it, a
>> release build would not.
>
> tblgen could unconditionally generate code that is protected by NDEBUG.

All right, that's doable.

>>> I agree that not all compiler hackers will want to see it, I'd
>>> suggest adding a cl::opt that is only even available when built with
>>> assertions on.
>> 
>> Assertions or Debug?  I would think we'd want it in the latter.
>
> Assertions (which are on by default in a debug build) is the knob we
> have to play with.

Ah, because of NDEBUG.  Ok, makes sense.  Not much of a loss for
Debug-Assertions.  I doubt many people debug with it.

                               -Dave