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From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] final: Improve output for -dp and -fverbose-asm
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1711301658410.25295@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171130111644.GY10515@gate.crashing.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> > [c=NN l=NN] will be meaningless to those without some deeper insight 
> > into/experience with what's actually being printed. It might as well 
> > say [NN NN].  But such extreme terseness would
> 
> Length isn't printed on all targets, fwiw.

Assembler is mnemonic, I see no reason to make the meta info not be 
mnemonic as well.  In that light [NN NN] is clearly less mnemonic than 
[c=NN l=NN] (order is clear), and [length=NN] is overly verbose.  People 
looking at -fverbose-asm output don't need hand-holding.


Ciao,
Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29 23:37 Segher Boessenkool
2017-11-30  7:52 ` Martin Sebor
2017-11-30 11:54   ` Segher Boessenkool
2017-11-30 16:06     ` Michael Matz [this message]
2017-11-30 16:36     ` Martin Sebor
2017-11-30 16:50       ` Segher Boessenkool
2017-11-30 17:02         ` Martin Sebor
2017-11-30 17:14           ` Michael Matz
2017-11-30 17:55             ` David Malcolm
2017-12-04 15:49               ` Michael Matz
2017-11-30 17:55             ` Martin Sebor
2017-12-01  0:32               ` Jeff Law
2017-12-01 22:52               ` Segher Boessenkool
2017-12-04 12:39               ` Michael Matz
2017-11-30 17:15           ` Segher Boessenkool
2017-11-30 22:59             ` Martin Sebor
2017-12-01  0:26               ` Jeff Law
2017-12-01  0:49       ` Jeff Law
2017-12-01 23:45         ` Segher Boessenkool
2017-11-30 16:44 ` Kyrill Tkachov
2017-11-30 16:54   ` Michael Matz
2017-11-30 16:55     ` Kyrill Tkachov
2017-11-30 17:07       ` Michael Matz
2017-12-01  0:22         ` Jeff Law
2017-12-01  0:25       ` Jeff Law
2017-12-01  1:17 ` Jeff Law

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