On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

>> Overall, we'd have a --log-file option for normal Valgrind output (ie. what
>> normally goes to stderr), and then for each tool that writes an output file
>> (Cachegrind, Callgrind, Massif) there would be an option like --massif-file.
>> In the Callgrind case it would be --callgrind-file-prefix.
>
> Do we really want the tool name in the option? I would vote for one global
> option "--output-file=..." to specify an output file name/pattern, and the 
> tool
> is free to add suffixes. This makes it easier for the user to remember
> * the option name and
> * the fact that this option allows for pattern specification.

An example:  for Cachegrind, there is the "log output", ie. what normally is 
printed to stderr, and there is the "file output", ie. what goes in 
cachegrind.out.*.  You need to be able to control the file names of these 
two separately.  So a single global options won't suffice.

Nick

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