llvm dev - Feb 2014 - [LLVMdev] CommandLine handling of -help and -version options

Tools that use the LLVM CommandLine library seem to exit 1 when called
with -version or -help. This is strange and inconsistent with most
command line tools.

Is there a reason we exit 1? Is anyone relying on this behaviour?

I can't imagine a good reason for this.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Justin Bogner <mail at
justinbogner.com>wrote:
> Tools that use the LLVM CommandLine library seem to exit 1 when called
> with -version or -help. This is strange and inconsistent with most
> command line tools.
>
> Is there a reason we exit 1? Is anyone relying on this behaviour?
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Me neither.  This is probably my fault, feel free to fix it.

-Chris

On Feb 27, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
wrote:
> I can't imagine a good reason for this.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Justin Bogner <mail at
justinbogner.com> wrote:
> Tools that use the LLVM CommandLine library seem to exit 1 when called
> with -version or -help. This is strange and inconsistent with most
> command line tools.
> 
> Is there a reason we exit 1? Is anyone relying on this behaviour?
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> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
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