This patch adds the -fminimize-whitespace with the following effects:
* If combined with -E, remove as much non-line-breaking whitespace as
possible.
* If combined with -E -P, removes as much whitespace as possible,
including line-breaks.
The motivation is to reduce the amount of insignificant changes in the
preprocessed output with source files where only whitespace has been
changed (add/remove comments, clang-format, etc.) which is in particular
useful with ccache.
A patch for ccache for using this flag has been proposed to ccache as well:
https://github.com/ccache/ccache/pull/815, which will use
-fnormalize-whitespace when clang-13 has been detected, and additionally
uses -P in "unify_mode". ccache already had a unify_mode in an older
version which was removed because of problems that using the
preprocessor itself does not have (such that the custom tokenizer did
not recognize C++11 raw strings).
This patch slightly reorganizes which part is responsible for adding
newlines that are required for semantics. It is now either
startNewLineIfNeeded() or MoveToLine() but never both; this avoids the
ShouldUpdateCurrentLine workaround and avoids redundant lines being
inserted in some cases. It also fixes a mandatory newline not inserted
after a _Pragma("...") that is expanded into a #pragma.
Reviewed By: aaron.ballman
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104601
Fixes PR17018. Only partial test coverage because I don't want
to try to write a test which generates a file whose name contains a newline.
llvm-svn: 189557
- This diverges from gcc, and confuses tools (like dtrace) which track # line
markers as a way to determine which content is in the context of the main
file.
llvm-svn: 168128
Michael Kruse