From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118766 invoked by alias); 4 May 2016 15:25:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 118755 invoked by uid 89); 4 May 2016 15:25:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=disturbing, HTo:D*acm.org, training X-HELO: nikam.ms.mff.cuni.cz Received: from nikam.ms.mff.cuni.cz (HELO nikam.ms.mff.cuni.cz) (195.113.20.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 04 May 2016 15:25:46 +0000 Received: by nikam.ms.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix, from userid 16202) id 626E7543D64; Wed, 4 May 2016 17:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 15:25:00 -0000 From: Jan Hubicka To: Nathan Sidwell Cc: Aaron Conole , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Jan Hubicka Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gcov: Runtime configurable destination output Message-ID: <20160504152542.GC24625@kam.mff.cuni.cz> References: <1456350732-8272-1-git-send-email-aconole@bytheb.org> <59207732-1532-8785-7387-ac793ddad021@acm.org> <6ab05137-7f81-7024-6c21-640dccb16766@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ab05137-7f81-7024-6c21-640dccb16766@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00310.txt.bz2 > 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