Re: [PATCH] final: Improve output for -dp and -fverbose-asm

[Kyrill Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@foss.arm.com>]

On 30/11/17 16:47, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Kyrill  Tkachov wrote:
>
>>> This improves the assembler output (for -dp and -fverbose-asm) in
>>> several ways.  It always prints the insn_cost.  It does not print
>>> "[length = NN]" but "[c=NN l=NN]", to save space.  It does not add one
>>> to the instruction alternative number (everything else starts counting
>>> those at 0, too).  And finally, it tries to keep things lined up in
>>> columns a bit better.
>>>
>>> Tested on powerpc64-linux {-m32,-m64}; is this okay for trunk?
>> FWIW printing the cost would be hepful to me at the -dp level. I agree
>> with Martin that 'c' and 'l' are too short but using 'len' for length
>> would be acceptable.
> Seriously?  You'd have a problem to decipher c/l but not rldicl ?

I don't know what rldicl means without looking it up on the Internet ;)
Given how frequently I have to look at these dumps, I could get used to 
any encoding though.
I don't find them too verbose for my purposes, but if saving space is a goal
here then I won't object to keeping them as single characters

Thanks,
Kyrill


>
> Ciao,
> Michael.