Re: [Valgrind-developers] Consistent naming options for output [was: Re: valgrind: r7084 - trunk/massif]

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

> I am not really settled about "--out-file". I just think that options for
> similar functions in different tools should show some consistency.
> So I am really fine with an option "--<toolname>-out-file=..." with support
> for patterns (like %p).
>
> So I would change the according callgrind option to "--callgrind-out-file=...",
> independent of the fact that callgrind could produce further files with
> additional suffix.
>
> Is this OK?

That sounds ok.  In summary:

  --log-file=<pattern>

  --cachegrind-out-file=<pattern>

  --massif-out-file=<pattern>

  --callgrind-out-file=<pattern>

The latter could also be --callgrind-out-prefix, but I'm ok with 
--callgrind-out-file.

We could also shorten the options names, eg. --cg-out-file, but I'm not too 
fussed about that.

Nick