adding -ticky to, say, WAY_debug_HC_OPTS?

[Simon Marlow]

On 25/03/13 10:35, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
> (I admit that I remain intimidated by the build system.)
> I'm renabling some ticky counter bumps from within the RTS. The most
> direct path I see to this involves adding -ticky to makefile variables
> such as WAY_debug_HC_OPTS. (See the APPENDIX for why I need that.)
> It seems that the debug way is only used in the build system for
> building the RTS. Is that right?
 >
> If so, will a flag added to the debug HC_OPTS vars in ways.mk
> <http://ways.mk> only be used when compiling from .cmm sources? If so,
> my -ticky flag won't be putting ticky counters into any .o file where
> I'm not expecting them, right?

I think that approach should be fine, but it wouldn't hurt to do some 
sanity checks (e.g. log the build output and search for occurrences of 
-ticky, to make sure it doesn't leak somewhere you don't expect it to).

Cheers,
	Simon


> So:
> 1) Is it a bad idea to add -ticky to the non-threaded and
> non-profiling WAY_debug*_HC_OPTS variables in ways.mk <http://ways.mk>?
> 2) Alternative designs? A few come to mind, but they're more
> invasive/fragile.
> Thank you for your time.
> APPENDIX
> For example:
>   * The (generated) definition of stg_ap_*_info uses BUILD_PAP
>   * The definition of BUILD_PAP uses TICK_ALLOC_PAP
>   * TICK_ALLOC_PAP is elaborated by CmmParse.y using
> StgCmmTicky.tickyAllocPAP
>    * tickyAllocPAP emits no code unless Opt_Ticky is present.
>    * -ticky is not currently in the relevant command lines
>
>
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