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authorBen Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>2018-07-06 10:58:15 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-07-06 14:08:37 -0400
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users guide: Mention -fprint-typechecker-elaboration in -ddump-tc docs
Reviewers: mpickering Reviewed By: mpickering Subscribers: mpickering, rwbarton, thomie, carter Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4898
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@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ These flags dump various information from GHC's typechecker and renamer.
:shortdesc: Dump typechecker output
:type: dynamic
- Dump typechecker output
+ Dump typechecker output. Note that this hides a great deal of detail by
+ default; you might consider using this with
+ :ghc-flag:`-fprint-typechecker-elaboration`.
.. ghc-flag:: -ddump-tc-ast
:shortdesc: Dump typechecker output as a syntax tree
@@ -213,7 +215,8 @@ subexpression elimination pass.
Print a one-line summary of the size of the Core program at the end
of the optimisation pipeline.
-.. ghc-flag:: -ddump-ds -ddump-ds-preopt
+.. ghc-flag:: -ddump-ds
+ -ddump-ds-preopt
:shortdesc: Dump desugarer output.
:type: dynamic