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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2005-11-15 02:14:36
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Hi,
For the 3.1.0 release, I propose changing the default --leak-check value
from "summary" to "full".
In the survey (which I'm still processing, slowly), we got these numbers
for how people used this option:
full summary none unspecified
always/almost always 61 0 2 6
sometimes 23 0 1 13
("unspecified" means they said they use "--leak-check" but didn't specify
at what level; that probably means --leak-check=full since
--leak-check=summary is of very little real use.)
This is out of the 179 survey responses. Looks like a pretty overwhelming
usage pattern to me, one worth making the default. I think we could
remove the "summary" option and there would be no complaints.
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Also, I propose changing the default --num-callers option from 12 to 20.
67 people said they always/almost always use --num-callers, and the values
they use are:
8.. 16 20
20.. 40 22
50..200 13
unspecified 12
Only 2 of those in the 8..16 range were less than 12. I would guess that
those using less than 20 probably don't need it that high because their
stack traces are shorter than 20, as opposed to being longer than 20 but
them only being interested in the top 20. Basically, it's clear that
people like to see the entire stack trace where possible.
Thoughts?
Nick
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