[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] send benchmark time to stderr

Måns Rullgård mans
Thu Nov 19 11:08:22 CET 2009


Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> writes:

> Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> On 11/18/09 10:27 PM, Mike Melanson wrote:
>>> For some reason, '-benchmark' prints to stdout. This should go to stderr
>>> instead. I hope to use this in FATE.

I agree it should go to stderr.

>> The regression test script use -benchmark and redirect stdout to a
>> file, this needs some change as well.
>
> I knew there had to be a reason that this was being sent to stdout.

The regression test script does nothing whatsoever with that file.

> I was hoping to use this to automatically gather profiling statistics
> from remote testing targets. Could another solution be to add another
> option that sends the same information to stderr (-benchmarkstderr)?

Does your patch have any adverse effects on "make test"?  If not, I'm
fine with having it applied.  I'll fix any minor issues in the
regression tests afterwards.

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