[llvm-dev] Changing behavior of lit.py's -v flag

David Greene via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Sep 16 10:00:54 PDT 2019


Tim Northover via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> Hi Varun,
>
> I'm definitely in favour of making -v more useful like this.
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 19:31, Varun Gandhi via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> Option 2 (less deviation from status quo):
>> -v: Adopts behavior of -vvv from Option 1. :)
>> -vv: Same as today. :)
>
> I think I prefer this one. There's a significant minority of tests
> where a the single failing line isn't enough to work out what's
> actually happened, if the FileCheck is a separate RUN for example.
> Under this scheme no-one even needs to know -vv exists (which is good,
> because I've been working with LLVM for many years and didn't until
> this thread).

+1.

                      -David


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