linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf record: Add --dry-run option to check cmdline options

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Message-ID: <20160620181343.GA3602@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:13:43 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pi3orama@....com, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf record: Add --dry-run option to check cmdline
 options

Em Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:22:11AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:38:18AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Doing:

> > 	perf bcc -c foo.c

> > Looks so much simpler and similar to an existing compile source code
> > into object file workflow (gcc's, any C compiler) that I think it would
> > fit in the workflow being discussed really nicely.
 
> I'm hopeful that eventually we'll be able merge iovisor/bcc project
> with perf, so would be good to reserve 'perf bcc' command for that
> future use. Also picking a different name for compiling would be less
> confusing to users who already familiar with bcc. Instead we can use:
> perf bpfcc foo.c -o foo.o
> perf cc foo.c

'perf cc' seems sensible, and has the added bonus of being one letter
shorter :-)

- Arnaldo

> perf compile foo.c