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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support


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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