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-rw-r--r--llvm/tools/llvm-extract/llvm-extract.cpp14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-extract/llvm-extract.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-extract/llvm-extract.cpp
index b74b76e78eb..dddc0d9baa0 100644
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-extract/llvm-extract.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-extract/llvm-extract.cpp
@@ -74,8 +74,18 @@ static cl::list<std::string>
// ExtractBlocks - The blocks to extract from the module.
static cl::list<std::string> ExtractBlocks(
- "bb", cl::desc("Specify <function, basic block> pairs to extract"),
- cl::ZeroOrMore, cl::value_desc("function:bb"), cl::cat(ExtractCat));
+ "bb",
+ cl::desc(
+ "Specify <function, basic block1[;basic block2...]> pairs to extract.\n"
+ "Each pair will create a function.\n"
+ "If multiple basic blocks are specified in one pair,\n"
+ "the first block in the sequence should dominate the rest.\n"
+ "eg:\n"
+ " --bb=f:bb1;bb2 will extract one function with both bb1 and bb2;\n"
+ " --bb=f:bb1 --bb=f:bb2 will extract two functions, one with bb1, one "
+ "with bb2."),
+ cl::ZeroOrMore, cl::value_desc("function:bb1[;bb2...]"),
+ cl::cat(ExtractCat));
// ExtractAlias - The alias to extract from the module.
static cl::list<std::string>
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