Wait, isn't new codegen merged years ago? I don't see these comment lines in 8.0.1-generated Cmm files. Comments in the AST may be there but no comments were printed until very recently.
If no one feels strongly about this I'd love to remove those. 2016-05-29 11:14 GMT-04:00 Ben Gamari <b...@smart-cactus.org>: > Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeraga...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm reading a lot of Cmm these days and comments added by Cmm dump (which >> are >> apparently added after 8.0.1) are so annoying becuase they're not saying >> anything useful (what's the point of adding "// CmmCall" to a "call" line or >> "// CmmCondBranch" to a "if" line?) but making a lot of noise. Why were those >> added? Can we remove them? > > It looks like they've been with us since the initial merge of the new > codegen. I agree that they don't add much value but I don't have any > strong opinion either way. The only comment that we might want to > retain is the one for CmmUnsafeForeignCall as it looks quite similar to > a CmmCall. > > Cheers, > > - Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
