[Support] Update comments about stdout, raw_fd_ostream, and outs()

The full story is in the comments:

  // Do not attempt to close stdout or stderr. We used to try to maintain the
  // property that tools that support writing file to stdout should not also
  // write informational output to stdout, but in practice we were never able to
  // maintain this invariant. Many features have been added to LLVM and clang
  // (-fdump-record-layouts, optimization remarks, etc) that print to stdout, so
  // users must simply be aware that mixed output and remarks is a possibility.

NFC, I am just updating comments to reflect reality.

llvm-svn: 310016
This commit is contained in:
Reid Kleckner 2017-08-04 01:39:23 +00:00
parent 696e3847dd
commit 02aeadcf3d
2 changed files with 12 additions and 14 deletions

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@ -388,15 +388,14 @@ public:
/// \p Flags allows optional flags to control how the file will be opened.
///
/// As a special case, if Filename is "-", then the stream will use
/// STDOUT_FILENO instead of opening a file. Note that it will still consider
/// itself to own the file descriptor. In particular, it will close the
/// file descriptor when it is done (this is necessary to detect
/// output errors).
/// STDOUT_FILENO instead of opening a file. This will not close the stdout
/// descriptor.
raw_fd_ostream(StringRef Filename, std::error_code &EC,
sys::fs::OpenFlags Flags);
/// FD is the file descriptor that this writes to. If ShouldClose is true,
/// this closes the file when the stream is destroyed.
/// this closes the file when the stream is destroyed. If FD is for stdout or
/// stderr, it will not be closed.
raw_fd_ostream(int fd, bool shouldClose, bool unbuffered=false);
~raw_fd_ostream() override;

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@ -513,11 +513,13 @@ raw_fd_ostream::raw_fd_ostream(int fd, bool shouldClose, bool unbuffered)
ShouldClose = false;
return;
}
// We do not want to close STDOUT as there may have been several uses of it
// such as the case: llc %s -o=- -pass-remarks-output=- -filetype=asm
// which cause multiple closes of STDOUT_FILENO and/or use-after-close of it.
// Using dup() in getFD doesn't work as we end up with original STDOUT_FILENO
// open anyhow.
// Do not attempt to close stdout or stderr. We used to try to maintain the
// property that tools that support writing file to stdout should not also
// write informational output to stdout, but in practice we were never able to
// maintain this invariant. Many features have been added to LLVM and clang
// (-fdump-record-layouts, optimization remarks, etc) that print to stdout, so
// users must simply be aware that mixed output and remarks is a possibility.
if (FD <= STDERR_FILENO)
ShouldClose = false;
@ -722,10 +724,7 @@ bool raw_fd_ostream::has_colors() const {
/// outs() - This returns a reference to a raw_ostream for standard output.
/// Use it like: outs() << "foo" << "bar";
raw_ostream &llvm::outs() {
// Set buffer settings to model stdout behavior. Delete the file descriptor
// when the program exits, forcing error detection. This means that if you
// ever call outs(), you can't open another raw_fd_ostream on stdout, as we'll
// close stdout twice and print an error the second time.
// Set buffer settings to model stdout behavior.
std::error_code EC;
static raw_fd_ostream S("-", EC, sys::fs::F_None);
assert(!EC);