> On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 06:47:24PM +0000, Adrian Prantl via cfe-commits wrote:
>> This code in this patch listens to the driver option -gfull, and lowers it 
>> to the new cc1 option -debug-retain-types (1).
>> When -debug-retain-types is present, CGDebugInfo will retain every(2) type 
>> it creates.
> 
> Is there a good reason for calling it -gfull? I would find something
> -gall-types or -gretain-all-types to make a lot more sense. This should
> be orthogonal to other options like providing only line tables?

My thinking was this:
The driver already supports -gfull, but it doesn’t do anything.
This patch can be considered a first step towards making -gfull behave as 
expected.
Eventually it should emit debug info for *all* types.

> Joerg
> 
> PS: Slightly related side question, do we have any tools for extracting
> a given list of types for retaining? Either by name or global variable
> expression.

Extract them from where? Can you give an example?

-- adrian
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