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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/05/10 13:22, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:09:41PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > The FFC man pages says:
> >
> > -d, --debug
> >                Debug mode, more output is printed. Conflicts with -s.
> >
> > The description sounds to me like it should be '-v, --verbose' The
> > current flag is confusing when we have '-O' for code optimisation.
> >
> > Garth
>
> Yes, -v might be a better choice, but how is it especially confusing
> when -O is used?

Because 'debug' and 'optimise' are like brother and sister - both should 
relate to the code (like for gcc). A perfect valid choice would be '-d 
-O' - it is unclear if it's debug or optimise or both?

Garth




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