thakis added inline comments.

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Comment at: include/clang/Driver/CLCompatOptions.td:68
@@ +67,3 @@
+def _SLASH_FC : CLFlag<"FC">,
+  HelpText<"Use absolute paths in diagnostics and __FILE__">,
+  Alias<fabsolute_paths>;
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hans wrote:
> thakis wrote:
> > hans wrote:
> > > thakis wrote:
> > > > Hm, I'm not sure this should affect __FILE__. It sounds people want 
> > > > this for diagnostics, but making it affect __FILE__ makes reproducible 
> > > > builds harder. (There's -ffile-macro-prefix-to-remove from 
> > > > http://reviews.llvm.org/D17741 for that too, but that's not in.)
> > > The MSVC docs say it applies to __FILE__ though 
> > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/027c4t2s.aspx and I worry that 
> > > implementing only half of it might surprise users.
> > > 
> > > Chromium currently builds with MSVC and /FC, so we should already have 
> > > full paths in __FILE__ there.
> > Sure, but the MSVC build is not deterministic in several ways that folks 
> > aren't happy about, and we're supposed to improve that :-)
> > 
> > As far as I know __FILE__ defaults to just the file's basename in cl.exe 
> > (is that true?). So without /FC __FILE__ is useless there and people more 
> > or less have to pass /FC. With clang, we emit the full relative path to the 
> > file, so it's not useless already.
> > 
> > For diagnostics, I can kind of see how full paths are useful: You likely 
> > develop on the same machine as you see the diagnostics on, so people want 
> > real absolute paths so they can click on them in MSVC. For __FILE__, that's 
> > less convincing, since that gets embedded into the binary that's shipped 
> > elsewhere.
> > As far as I know FILE defaults to just the file's basename in cl.exe (is 
> > that true?).
> 
> In my testing, MSVC does include the full relative path in __FILE__ by 
> default.
> 
> I agree that diagnostics seems to be the main motivation here. I'm just 
> worried that if we implement /FC but leave out the FILE part, that's 
> confusing for whoever might rely on it.
> 
> Maybe we should just do an -fabs-path-diagnostics option instead?
Works for me :-)


https://reviews.llvm.org/D23816



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