[LLVMdev] [llvm-commits] patch to enable response file support in ParseCommandLineOptions
Liu, Yaxun (Sam)
Yaxun.Liu at amd.com
Tue Oct 2 21:39:11 PDT 2012
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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