abhina.sreeskantharajan added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/include/clang/Frontend/CompilerInstance.h:738-740
+  createOutputFileImpl(StringRef OutputPath, llvm::sys::fs::OpenFlags Flags,
                        bool RemoveFileOnSignal, bool UseTemporary,
                        bool CreateMissingDirectories);
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dexonsmith wrote:
> abhina.sreeskantharajan wrote:
> > rnk wrote:
> > > I think this is only going to be worth it if we can roll up all of these 
> > > booleans into a new flags enum for compiler instance. It also prevents 
> > > introducing a new use of FileSystem.h, which is an expensive header to 
> > > include.
> > Sorry, I don't think I completely understand your suggestion. Are you 
> > proposing that we create a new enum just for CompilerInstance.h for the 
> > other booleans like RemoveFileOnSignal, UseTemporary, 
> > CreateMissingDirectories? And this new enum also contain text/binary flags 
> > so we don't need to use the enum in FileSystem.h? 
> > 
> > For background, I need this specific change to set some more text files 
> > with OF_Text because my old commit got reverted since it caused CRLF issues 
> > on Windows https://reviews.llvm.org/D96363.
> > 
> Yes, I think that's what @rnk is suggesting, maybe along the lines of the 
> OutputConfigFlag in the (languishing, I need to get back to it) 
> OutputBackend/OutputManager proposal I have (see, e.g., 
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D95501, which needs to be split up), or maybe as a 
> struct with named members as @sammccall suggests there.
> 
> > It also prevents introducing a new use of FileSystem.h, which is an 
> > expensive header to include.
> Another option that'd be more isolated would be to split the OpenFlag enum 
> (and/or its friends) out to another header in 
> llvm/include/llvm/Support/FileSystem/ (say, 
> .../FileSystem/FileSystemEnums.h), like was done for UniqueID.h.
Thanks for clarifying. I think having a duplicate copy of the OpenFlags may be 
confusing. I like the idea of putting the enums in its own header file. But can 
that be done in a separate change than this patch? It will be a much larger 
change touching more files than this patcch.


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