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From: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org>
Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,	Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gcov: Runtime configurable destination output
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 15:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160504152542.GC24625@kam.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ab05137-7f81-7024-6c21-640dccb16766@acm.org>

> On 04/29/16 11:08, Aaron Conole wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps I've poorly explained what I want. I want to be able to pipe
> >gcov error messages to a different file for post-processing / reporting
> >elsewhere. I don't want them mixed with the application's messages. Do
> >you think this kind of generic flexibility is not a good thing, when it
> >comes at such little cost?
> 
> Thanks for clarifying your rationale.  I'm not convinced, but I'm
> not (yet) saying no.
> 
> Jan, do you have any thoughts?

I can imagine this to be useful - if your application is outputting stuff into
error output during its training run, it may be quite disturbing having gcov
diagnostics randomly mixed in. (in particular I run myself into cases missing
the diagnostics) So I am fine with the feature.

Honza
> 
> nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-04 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-24 21:52 Aaron Conole
2016-04-15 19:02 ` Aaron Conole
2016-04-27 20:59 ` Aaron Conole
2016-04-28 13:25   ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-04-29 15:08     ` Aaron Conole
2016-05-04 15:22       ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-05-04 15:25         ` Jan Hubicka [this message]
2016-05-06 13:18 ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-05-19 18:40   ` Aaron Conole
2016-05-19 19:25     ` Jeff Law
2016-05-19 23:14       ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-05-20  1:11         ` Jeff Law
2016-05-19 23:17     ` Nathan Sidwell
2016-05-23 18:16       ` Aaron Conole
2016-06-03 15:00         ` H.J. Lu
2016-06-03 15:31           ` Aaron Conole
2016-06-04 12:12           ` Aaron Conole
2016-06-06 15:25             ` Nathan Sidwell

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