[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] RFC: mesa: remove MESA_VERBOSE env variable

[Brian Paul]

On 04/21/2017 05:02 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 21 April 2017 at 07:18, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-04-20 18:49:57, Timothy Arceri wrote:
>>> On 21/04/17 11:37, Jordan Justen wrote:
>>>> On 2017-04-20 12:33:45, Samuel Pitoiset wrote:
>>>>> I have used it sometimes, but since VERBOSE_API is missing in a bunch of
>>>>> places, that's quite useless. :)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I also use MESA_VERBOSE=api every few months or so. I've found it
>>>> pretty useful, but frustratingly I've nearly always ended up having to
>>>> add new calls for it become useful.
>>>>
>>>> Something that automates wrapping the API probably is perhaps more
>>>> maintainable.
>>>
>>> As Eric mentioned it would probably be best to add something to dispatch
>>> generation if we want this to be reliable. It shouldn't be too difficult
>>> to do.
>>>
>>
>> Could that version could be implemented as a replacement before
>> removing the current version?
>>
> As you pointed out this is something we might want to have in GLVND.
> Not sure if how long it will take to write/merge that so stalling on
> it is a bit... meh.

FWIW, there is some old code in src/mapi/glapi/glapi_dispatch.c that'll 
print each API call with its arguments.  Though, IIRC, it requires 
disabling the x86/x64 asm dispatch code, disabling shared-glapi and 
something else.

-Brian