dstenb added a comment.

Our legacy frontend does not support -MJ, so when using that frontend for code 
generation, we invoke clang with -MJ, and at the same use -fsyntax-only to get 
the improved diagnostics that clang provides. This is idiosyncratic and 
probably hacky, I know, but it works well enough to for example for getting 
access to defines and include flags from the compilation database, and being 
able to run clang-tidy. So (1) does not fit our use case, unfortunately.

Our way of running should of course in itself not  affect what is done 
upstream, but in general I don't see why someone shouldn't be allowed to do, 
for example, the following in their build chain:

  clang -MJ - -DFOO=usual-value foo.c -o foo.out # code generation
  clang -MJ - -DFOO=unusual-value -fsyntax-value foo.c # quick sanity check

and then run a tool like clang-tidy with the resulting compilation database.

Disregarding the above, I agree with the POLA issue with (1), so out of those 
two options the latter seems better to me.


Repository:
  rC Clang

https://reviews.llvm.org/D44774



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