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author | Justin Bogner <mail@justinbogner.com> | 2015-10-15 18:17:44 +0000 |
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committer | Justin Bogner <mail@justinbogner.com> | 2015-10-15 18:17:44 +0000 |
commit | c2e54af7d332488056e02b00e0bc71d64dbd4a8b (patch) | |
tree | 91ab0629363d9600c87aecf65e3dd568444a43b9 /llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst | |
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docs: Stop using DEBUG() without DEBUG_TYPE in the ProgrammersManual
The DEBUG() macro has required that a DEBUG_TYPE be set since r206822.
Update the programmers manual to reflect that, and also update the
wording to point out that DEBUG_TYPE should be defined after #includes.
llvm-svn: 250436
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst b/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst index 08cc61a187b..44f76fef8f1 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ Then you can run your pass like this: Using the ``DEBUG()`` macro instead of a home-brewed solution allows you to not have to create "yet another" command line option for the debug output for your -pass. Note that ``DEBUG()`` macros are disabled for optimized builds, so they +pass. Note that ``DEBUG()`` macros are disabled for non-asserts builds, so they do not cause a performance impact at all (for the same reason, they should also not contain side-effects!). @@ -383,21 +383,17 @@ Fine grained debug info with ``DEBUG_TYPE`` and the ``-debug-only`` option Sometimes you may find yourself in a situation where enabling ``-debug`` just turns on **too much** information (such as when working on the code generator). If you want to enable debug information with more fine-grained control, you -can define the ``DEBUG_TYPE`` macro and use the ``-debug-only`` option as +should define the ``DEBUG_TYPE`` macro and use the ``-debug-only`` option as follows: .. code-block:: c++ - #undef DEBUG_TYPE - DEBUG(errs() << "No debug type\n"); #define DEBUG_TYPE "foo" DEBUG(errs() << "'foo' debug type\n"); #undef DEBUG_TYPE #define DEBUG_TYPE "bar" DEBUG(errs() << "'bar' debug type\n")); #undef DEBUG_TYPE - #define DEBUG_TYPE "" - DEBUG(errs() << "No debug type (2)\n"); Then you can run your pass like this: @@ -406,24 +402,22 @@ Then you can run your pass like this: $ opt < a.bc > /dev/null -mypass <no output> $ opt < a.bc > /dev/null -mypass -debug - No debug type 'foo' debug type 'bar' debug type - No debug type (2) $ opt < a.bc > /dev/null -mypass -debug-only=foo 'foo' debug type $ opt < a.bc > /dev/null -mypass -debug-only=bar 'bar' debug type Of course, in practice, you should only set ``DEBUG_TYPE`` at the top of a file, -to specify the debug type for the entire module (if you do this before you -``#include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"``, you don't have to insert the ugly -``#undef``'s). Also, you should use names more meaningful than "foo" and "bar", -because there is no system in place to ensure that names do not conflict. If -two different modules use the same string, they will all be turned on when the -name is specified. This allows, for example, all debug information for -instruction scheduling to be enabled with ``-debug-only=InstrSched``, even if -the source lives in multiple files. +to specify the debug type for the entire module. Be careful that you only do +this after including Debug.h and not around any #include of headers. Also, you +should use names more meaningful than "foo" and "bar", because there is no +system in place to ensure that names do not conflict. If two different modules +use the same string, they will all be turned on when the name is specified. +This allows, for example, all debug information for instruction scheduling to be +enabled with ``-debug-only=InstrSched``, even if the source lives in multiple +files. For performance reasons, -debug-only is not available in optimized build (``--enable-optimized``) of LLVM. @@ -435,10 +429,8 @@ preceding example could be written as: .. code-block:: c++ - DEBUG_WITH_TYPE("", errs() << "No debug type\n"); DEBUG_WITH_TYPE("foo", errs() << "'foo' debug type\n"); DEBUG_WITH_TYPE("bar", errs() << "'bar' debug type\n")); - DEBUG_WITH_TYPE("", errs() << "No debug type (2)\n"); .. _Statistic: |