Add a comment explaining why this code uses Append mode.

llvm-svn: 104095
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Dan Gohman 2010-05-19 01:21:34 +00:00
parent 632cb17357
commit 434b54846d

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@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ raw_ostream *llvm::CreateInfoOutputFile() {
if (OutputFilename == "-")
return new raw_fd_ostream(1, false); // stdout.
// Append mode is used because the info output file is opened and closed
// each time -stats or -time-passes wants to print output to it. To
// compensate for this, the test-suite Makefiles have code to delete the
// info output file before running commands which write to it.
std::string Error;
raw_ostream *Result = new raw_fd_ostream(OutputFilename.c_str(),
Error, raw_fd_ostream::F_Append);