On Oct 18, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 18, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Douglas Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 18, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Eric Christopher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Author: echristo
>>> Date: Thu Oct 18 16:52:18 2012
>>> New Revision: 166236
>>> 
>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=166236&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> Add a new option for and disable column number information as there
>>> are no known current users of column info. Robustify and fix up
>>> a few tests in the process. Reduces the size of debug information
>>> by a small amount.
>> 
>> 
>> I'd rather we try to optimize column-number computation first. If we can 
>> make it fast enough, we don't need to add this tweaking flag.
> 
> Did you take a look at the comments in the PR?  There is no known client of 
> this information, it bloats debug information, and it forces computation 
> (which, yes, could be sped up) that isn't otherwise needed.  It seems like 
> clearly the wrong thing to enable by default.


Hrm, I skimmed over the "no known current users". I hate such configuration 
flags, but this one makes sense.

        - Doug
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