[llvm-dev] TableGen trace facility

[Madhur Amilkanthwar via llvm-dev]

Well, I was hinting at LLVM_DEBUG messages. You can pretty much dump all
"actions" Tablegen would take to process a .td file, which should suffice,
IMO.


On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 5:59 PM Paul C. Anagnostopoulos <paul at windfall.com>
wrote:

> Your reply suggests that there is a way to see debug messages from
> TableGen. Is that what you meant? If so, can you explain how that works?
> (Sorry, I should know the answer to this question, but I'm quite the
> newbie.)
>
> At 8/5/2020 04:15 AM, Madhur Amilkanthwar wrote:
> >Hi Paul,
> >If all you care about is debugging then for now we can just emit a few
> more debug messages which would help to "trace" the flow. To distinguish
> traces you can prefix it with some known string. I don't think you really
> need a 'trace' tag in the language spec for this.
> >
> >Debugging Tablegen has always been a nightmare and I don't think we can
> ever reach a stage where we can start a debugger and debug statements in
> .td files step-by-step. This is far from reality unless we fundamentally
> change the language.
>
>

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