aaron.ballman added a comment. In D100762#2707823 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D100762#2707823>, @arichardson wrote:
> In D100762#2707812 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D100762#2707812>, @jansvoboda11 > wrote: > >> If `-ast-dump=json` was a driver flag, it would be trivial to pass >> `-ast-dump -ast-dump-format json` to -cc1 instead. However, aliasing a >> single option to two options within the -cc1 argument parser isn't possible >> at the moment AFAIK. I can look into how much work adding that capability >> would be. >> >> @arichardson Can you point me to the external consumers? > > I just did the following search and saw that there are multiple stack > overflow answers etc. recommending the use of `-Xclang -ast-dump=json`: > https://www.google.com/search?q=%22-ast-dump%3Djson%22 > > I am not sure how many actual consumers there are, but I think it would be > good to keep this option to avoid surprises for users. While they probably > shouldn't be using internal -cc1 options, this is the only documented way of > getting an AST dump. This gets used on Compiler Explorer as it's the only way to get a JSON dump from that interface. e.g., https://godbolt.org/z/3nf6fvfYz Repository: rG LLVM Github Monorepo CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D100762/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D100762 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
