[LLVMdev] Getting rid of tabs in LLVM's assembly output?

Craig Topper
2012-12-18T21:09:31Z

But its pretty easy to change the tabstop within the editor to make it
readable.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Caldarale, Charles R
> <Chuck.Caldarale at unisys.com> wrote:
> >> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at
cs.uiuc.edu]
> >> On Behalf Of Eli Bendersky
> >> Subject: [LLVMdev] Getting rid of tabs in LLVM's assembly
output?
> >
> >> Problem: I then get tabs in my tests, which are discouraged by
LLVM's
> >> own code standards, because assembly output uses tabs extensively.
> >
> >> Proposal: get rid of tabs by just replacing them with two spaces
> everywhere.
> >
> > That will cause some really ugly output; can a somewhat more
intelligent
> formatter be used to keep columns aligned?
> >
>
> Here's how some random output currently looks in a 2-space-per-tab
editor:
>
>   cmpl  $0, -28(%rbp)
>   je  .LBB2_9
>   movsbl  -81(%rbp), %eax
>   movq  -16(%rbp), %rcx
>   movb  56(%rcx), %dl
>   andb  $1, %dl
>   movzbl  %dl, %esi
>
> So if you're worried about ugliness, it's already there :-)
>
> Eli
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~Craig
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