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| author | Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> | 2016-08-28 12:34:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> | 2016-08-28 12:34:36 +0200 |
| commit | 66582964bc11aadf3d0783a346706d801451a13f (patch) | |
| tree | 47035606bf0c418f89e740940c98e05be430e203 /passes/cmds | |
| parent | f56dba8e2053d12fbd8e1e9b7dc83f3e4e340f3d (diff) | |
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Improved "show" help message
Diffstat (limited to 'passes/cmds')
| -rw-r--r-- | passes/cmds/show.cc | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/passes/cmds/show.cc b/passes/cmds/show.cc index 3c4ce85d8..3a3939a81 100644 --- a/passes/cmds/show.cc +++ b/passes/cmds/show.cc @@ -582,8 +582,9 @@ struct ShowPass : public Pass { log(" Run the specified command with the graphics file as parameter.\n"); log("\n"); log(" -format <format>\n"); - log(" Generate a graphics file in the specified format.\n"); - log(" Usually <format> is 'svg' or 'ps'.\n"); + log(" Generate a graphics file in the specified format. Use 'dot' to just\n"); + log(" generate a .dot file, or other <format> strings such as 'svg' or 'ps'\n"); + log(" to generate files in other formats (this calls the 'dot' command).\n"); log("\n"); log(" -lib <verilog_or_ilang_file>\n"); log(" Use the specified library file for determining whether cell ports are\n"); @@ -646,7 +647,8 @@ struct ShowPass : public Pass { log("unless another prefix is specified using -prefix <prefix>.\n"); log("\n"); log("Yosys on Windows and YosysJS use different defaults: The output is written\n"); - log("to 'show.dot' in the current directory and new viewer is launched.\n"); + log("to 'show.dot' in the current directory and new viewer is launched each time\n"); + log("the 'show' command is executed.\n"); log("\n"); } virtual void execute(std::vector<std::string> args, RTLIL::Design *design) |