Add a 'Debugging' section to the documentation.
authorMikhail Glushenkov <foldr@codedgers.com>
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:48:48 +0000 (20:48 +0000)
committerMikhail Glushenkov <foldr@codedgers.com>
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:48:48 +0000 (20:48 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@56464 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

tools/llvmc2/doc/LLVMC-Reference.rst

index af0c8b7b2b74e6f7af8d55c62a7bce7253e4f816..9ec57dcfd39488ea70dfea6c114936e045b76558 100644 (file)
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ configuration files:
 * ``-v`` - Enable verbose mode, i.e. print out all executed commands.
 
 * ``--view-graph`` - Show a graphical representation of the compilation
-  graph. Requires that you have ``dot`` and ``gv`` commands
+  graph. Requires that you have ``dot`` and ``gv`` programs
   installed. Hidden option, useful for debugging.
 
 * ``--write-graph`` - Write a ``compilation-graph.dot`` file in the
@@ -414,9 +414,25 @@ located in the file ``Tools.td`` and looks like this::
          ...
         ]>;
 
+Debugging
+=========
+
+When writing LLVMC plugins, it can be useful to get a visual view of
+the resulting compilation graph. This can be achieved via the command
+line option ``--view-graph``. This command assumes that Graphviz [2]_ and
+Ghostview [3]_ are installed. There is also a ``--dump-graph`` option that
+creates a Graphviz source file(``compilation-graph.dot``) in the
+current directory.
+
 
 References
 ==========
 
 .. [1] TableGen Fundamentals
        http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html
+
+.. [2] Graphviz
+       http://www.graphviz.org/
+
+.. [3] Ghostview
+       http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/