[LLVMdev] Overhauling the command-line processing/codegen options code

[Justin Holewinski]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Daniel Liew <daniel.liew at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 13 February 2013 19:37, Justin Holewinski
> <justin.holewinski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone currently working on overhauling the command-line processing
> code?
> >
>
> I'm currently doing some work on the CommandLine library but I don't
> think my work is going to help you. I'm current working on...
>
> - Allowing declared command line options to be put into categories to
> allow a categorised --help for tools
> - Providing an iterator so that clients can iterate through registered
> command line options and programmatically hide options.
>
> I did send out an e-mail about the idea last week (
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-February/059129.html )
> but didn't hear anything back so assumed there were no objections to
> the idea.
>
> I'll keep an eye on this thread though.
>

That looks useful!  For this proposal, though, I'm not looking at extending
the functionality of command-line options.  I just need a thread-safe way
of control the existing options.


>
> Regards,
> Dan Liew.
>



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Thanks,

Justin Holewinski
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