#8624: -ddump-splices-file -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: GregWeber | Owner: Type: feature | Status: patch request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.6.3 Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: | Related Tickets: None/Unknown | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | https://phabricator.haskell.org/D518| -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): Replying to [comment:20 GregWeber]:
The design for this ticket is that a user always wants to save it to a file, and that should not have to make all other dumps go to a file.
So this allows `-dth-file` and another dump flag to be used at the same time. Why is that useful?
Additionally, I want a `.hs` file to signify that the output is valid Haskell, not just a dump in an ad-hoc format, whereas with dumping the convention is `dump-FLAG`.
This convention could be changed, `-ddump-th -ddump-to-file` would dump to a `.th.hs` file. A better name than `-dth-file` or `-dth-dec-file` could be `-dth-to-file`. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8624#comment:21 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler