In https://reviews.llvm.org/D135127 we created the show flag
`--output-format` which was confusing because it behaved differently
than the same flag in the merge command. So, rename the flag to
`--show-format`. This also allows us to add the `text` option to mean
"normal text output" rather than "text-encoded profiles" like it does
for the merge command.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135467
Add `--output-format` option for the `llvm-profdata show` command to select the type of output. The existing `--text` flag is used to emit text encoded profiles. To avoid confusion, `--output-format=text-encoding` indicates that the output will be profiles encoded in the text format, and `--output-format=text` indicates the default text output that doesn't necessarily represent a profile.
`--output-format=json` is an alias for `--json` and `--output-format=yaml` will be used in D134770.
Reviewed By: phosek
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135127
This patch teaches llvm-profdata to output the sample profile in the
JSON format. The new option is intended to be used for research and
development purposes. For example, one can write a Python script to
take a JSON file and analyze how similar different inline instances of
a given function are to each other.
I've chosen JSON because Python can parse it reasonably fast, and it
just takes a couple of lines to read the whole data:
import json
with open ('profile.json') as f:
profile = json.load(f)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130944
Ellis Hoag