[LLVMdev] [lld][Options] Sharing common options across flavors

[Shankar Easwaran]

On 9/18/2013 4:31 PM, Nick Kledzik wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> There are already a lot of options that are being shared across various flavors.  Adding a new option becomes a issue when that option need to available across all flavors.
>>
>> As the first step, I am thinking of consolidating the common options shared across all the Unix variant flavors in CommonOptions.td.
>>
>> The options that are shared between Darwin/GnuLD are :-
>>
>> a) -o
>> b) -L
>> c) -emit-yaml
>> d) --help
>> e) -mllvm
>>
> That would make it difficult to use OptionGroup (as darwin driver has) so the —help output is organized.  Also, the windows driver uses ‘/‘ so its entries use F<> instead of Flag<>, so I not sure how you can factor these out.  It also means that when looking at possible options, you’d have to look in two files instead of one.
Ah ok. I will leave it as is then.
>
>> I am also thinking of adding a verbose option that would essentially control the various verbose outputs that we might want to have. For example:
>>
>> lld -flavor gnu -target x86_64 --verbose=commandline,trampolines,symbols,reader,writer ....
>>
>> LinkingContext will have two functions :-
>>
>> setVerboseOptions(StringRef) -> stores all the verbose options in a vector.
>>
>> hasVerboseOption(StringRef) -> returns true if the option is present
>>
>> Thoughts on the above ?
> What do you mean by “verbose”.  Is this like DEBUG_WITH_TYPE()?
gnu ld has a verbose option that tells the user, whats going on in the 
linker from how it starts processing the command line to how symbols are 
being resolved.

Thanks

Shankar Easwaran

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