Re: PATCH PING: distcc and ccache speedup: adds directives-only preprocessing

["Ollie Wild" <aaw@google.com>]

Thanks for championing this, Ian.  It'll be good to finally get it in.

On 7/25/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> This patch is OK, with one caveat: I think the documentation could be
> better.

Agreed.  The documentation below is (hopefully) more readable.  Take a
look, and if everyone approves, I'll go ahead and submit the modified
patch.

Ollie


@item -fdirectives-only
@opindex fdirectives-only
This option provides a simplified preprocessor that improves the
performance of applications such as ccache and distcc.  In both these cases,
usage is straightforward:

@smallexample
distcc /usr/bin/gcc -fdirectives-only [COMPILER OPTIONS]
@end smallexample

The option's behavior depends on the @option{-E} and @option{-fpreprocessed}
options.

With @option{-E}, preprocessing is limited to the handling of directives
such as @code{#define}, @code{#ifdef}, and @code{#error}.  Other
preprocessor operations, such as macro expansion and trigraph
conversion are not performed.  In addition, the @option{-dD} option is
implicitly enabled.

With @option{-fpreprocessed}, predefinition of command line and most
builtin macros is disabled.  Macros such as @code{__LINE__}, which are
contextually dependent, are handled normally.  This enables compilation of
files previously preprocessed with @code{-E -fdirectives-only}.

With both @option{-E} and @option{-fpreprocessed}, the rules for
@option{-fpreprocessed} take precedence.  This enables full preprocessing of
files previously preprocessed with @code{-E -fdirectives-only}.