Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:43:04 +0200 (CEST) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Coccinelle has had parmap support since 1.0.2, this means > > > it supports --jobs, enabling built-in multithreaded functionality, > > > instead of needing one to script it out. Just look for --jobs > > > in the help output to determine if this is supported. > > > > > > Also enable the load balancing to be dynamic, so that if a > > > thread finishes early we keep feeding it. > > > > > > Note: now that we have all things handled for us, redirect stderr to > > > stdout as well to capture any possible errors or warnings issued by > > > coccinelle. > > > > > > If --jobs is not supported we fallback to the old mechanism. > > > This also now accepts DEBUG_FILE= to specify where you want > > > stderr to be redirected to, by default we redirect stderr to > > > /dev/null. > > > > Why do you want to do something different for standard error in the parmap > > and nonparmap case? > > We should just deprecate non-parmap later.
that's not really getting at the point. I like the DEBUG_FILE= solution. I don't like merging stderr and stdout. So you've put what to my mind is the good solution only in the deprecated case (to my understanding of the commit message).
julia
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