On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 06:39:56PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > On 15/01/2015 16:56, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote: > > On 2015/01/15 10:37, Steve Fink wrote: > >> On 01/14/2015 11:26 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > >>> From now on, the only supported build mode is unified compilation. I > >>> am planning to follow-up with removing support for the > >>> --disable-unified-compilation configure option altogether in bug > >>> 1121000. > >> > >> I commented in the bug, but I guess this is probably a better forum. > >> > >> Why is the configure option being removed? I understand always building > >> unified in automation, but not having a straightforward way at all to > >> see if your code is buggy seems... suboptimal. If someone wants to go > >> through occasionally and make our codebase valid C++, how should they do > >> it after this change? > >> > >> Perhaps the previous dev-platform thread would provide enlightenment and > >> I ought to go back and reread it :( , but I do not offhand recall it > >> deciding to remove the configure option altogether. > >> > > > > I have an issue here, too. > > > > Debugging using gdb will be very difficult when the unified build > > creates a source file on the fly (but it is removed, correct?). > > > > No sane compiler/debugger combination can help me do > > the source level debugging if the source code that the compiler > > compiled is gone by the time debugger tries to find it... > > > > Maybe I am missing something... > I have a similar question about static analysis tools (clang analyzer, > coverity, etc). > > Doing the SA on the whole unified file is going to produce some useless > results if all the files content gets merged.
why? In general I would expect it to work better with unified compilation since it can see more code at once. Trev > But maybe I am just missing the point. > > Cheers, > Sylvestre > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
