mtrofin added a comment.

In D93078#2499995 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D93078#2499995>, @jdoerfert wrote:

> In D93078#2499982 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D93078#2499982>, @mtrofin wrote:
>
>> In D93078#2499666 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D93078#2499666>, @jdoerfert 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this caused a lot of problems for the Attributor tests. I get the 
>>> "conflict output" warning all the time now :(
>>>
>>> These two `UpdateTestChecks` tests also generate the warning. I would think 
>>> that they haven't before.
>>>
>>>   LLVM :: tools/UpdateTestChecks/update_test_checks/check_attrs.test
>>>   LLVM :: 
>>> tools/UpdateTestChecks/update_test_checks/prefix-never-matches.test
>>>
>>> I suspect the `--check-attributes` flag effect are not taken into account 
>>> somewhere but I might be wrong.
>>
>> The warnings are correct, but their purpose is to inform. For example, take 
>> check_attrs. The third and fourth opt run produce different function 
>> attributes from those produced by the first two, so the function is 
>> different insofar as update_test_prefix is concerned. The warnings are there 
>> to indicate that the listed prefixes end up not being used. But, that's 'by 
>> design' for the attributor tests, IIRC.
>>
>> If the warnings are noise for you, we could add a flag to quiet them down, 
>> which you'd flip when regenerating attributor tests?
>
> TBH, before, the warnings meant there is a problem that needs fixing. Now 
> they mean, there might be one or not. So, depending on your setup it's just 
> noise while it was pure signal before.
> I'm not sure how this is more helpful. What is the use case where this way of 
> warning helps?

For tests other than attributor, that explicitly set FileCheck 
--allow-unused-prefixes=true, these warnings mean that there will be unused 
prefixes (those listed)


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