hfinkel added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34158#837130, @joerg wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34158#836026, @jyknight wrote:
>
> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34158#827178, @joerg wrote:
> >
> > > (2) It adds magic behavior that can make debugging more difficult. 
> > > Partially preprocessed sources for example could be compiled with plain 
> > > -c before, now they need a different command line.
> >
> >
> > If this is a problem, making it be Linux-only does _nothing_ to solve it. 
> > But I don't actually see how this is a substantively new problem? Compiling 
> > with plain -c before
> >  would get #defines for those predefined macros that the compiler sets, 
> > even though you may not have wanted those. Is this fundamentally different?
>
>
> It makes it a linux-only problem. As such, it is something *I* only care 
> about secondary. A typical use case I care about a lot is pulling the crash 
> report sources from my (NetBSD) build machine,
>  extracting the original command line to rerun the normal compilation with 
> -save-temps. I don't necessarily have the (same) system headers on the 
> machine I use for debugging and that's exactly
>  the kind of use case this change breaks. All other predefined macros are 
> driven by the target triple and remain stable.


Don't you use preprocessed source files from a crash?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D34158



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