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* [PATCH 0/N] Fix --help output.
@ 2009-03-01  7:10 Ralf Wildenhues
  2009-03-01  7:11 ` [PATCH, doc] Restore dropped sentence in options.texi (Option file format) Ralf Wildenhues
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 49+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Wildenhues @ 2009-03-01  7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-patches

Hello,

I do not like to read:
   This switch lacks documentation

I dislike documentation that gets worse.  On i686-pc-linux-gnu:

$ gcc -v --help 2>/dev/null | grep "This switch lacks documentation" | wc -l

trunk has 147,
gcc-4.2.4 had 108,
gcc-3.4.6 had 57.

Several of the now-undocumented switches used to be documented!

I have a set of patches to fix various related bugs in this area, but
I need help: how can I add test cases to the testsuite that just run the
compiler driver with some extra flags, and test its output against some
regexes, ideally multi-line?  I'm not very fluent in GCC dejagnu.

All patches have been bootstrapped and regtested on i686-pc-linux-gnu,
unless stated otherwise.

Thanks,
Ralf

PS: I meant to only send documentation patches, which is why I foolishly
assumed that this time of the cycle might still be a good time ... sorry
for the bad timing.

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2009-03-01  7:10 [PATCH 0/N] Fix --help output Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01  7:11 ` [PATCH, doc] Restore dropped sentence in options.texi (Option file format) Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 10:44   ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01  7:12 ` [PATCH, doc] Improve state of check_warning_flags.sh warnings Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 10:45   ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01 11:13   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2009-03-01  7:14 ` [PATCH] Fix --help -v output for duplicate options Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 10:46   ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01 11:11     ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 11:58       ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01 12:39         ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 12:44           ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01  7:17 ` [PATCH] grab all contents of multiline help in *.opt Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 10:24   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2009-03-01 10:49     ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01  7:17 ` [PATCH, java, fortran] Merge help texts for duplicate options Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-18 18:55   ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-18 20:06     ` Andrew Haley
2009-03-18 20:42     ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-03-18 20:59       ` Steve Kargl
2009-03-01  7:19 ` [PATCH] Fix output race in --help -v Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 10:50   ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01  7:20 ` [PATCH] Document --version in --help output Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-01 10:52   ` Richard Guenther
2009-03-01 10:13 ` [PATCH] PR middle-end/37805: --help=...,joined,undocumented Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-02 20:51   ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-05 21:20     ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-14  9:43       ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-17 14:08       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-03-01 21:52 ` [PATCH 0/N] Fix --help output Ben Elliston
2009-03-05 21:20   ` tests for --help (was: [PATCH 0/N] Fix --help output.) Ralf Wildenhues
2009-03-06  0:14     ` Ben Elliston
2009-03-06 19:00       ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-01 20:36         ` tests for --help Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-08 12:37           ` Rafael Espindola
2009-04-08 21:48             ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-08 22:25             ` Janis Johnson
2009-04-09  8:44               ` Rafael Espindola
2009-04-09 16:32                 ` Janis Johnson
2009-04-09 17:23                 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-10  1:15                   ` H.J. Lu
2009-04-10  6:12                     ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-10  7:03                       ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-04-10  7:29                         ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-10 13:29                           ` H.J. Lu
2009-04-10 14:58                             ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-25  8:13                               ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-04-25 22:41                               ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-04-11  0:56                     ` H.J. Lu

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