Use stdout for --help text instead of stderr (#7730)

* Use stdout for --help text instead of stderr

* format code (#13)

Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: slangbot <ellieh+slangbot@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/slang/slang-options.cpp b/source/slang/slang-options.cpp
index c532e91ae..749f1677a 100644
--- a/source/slang/slang-options.cpp
+++ b/source/slang/slang-options.cpp
@@ -2049,7 +2049,9 @@ SlangResult OptionsParser::_parseHelp(const CommandLineArg& arg)
         writer->appendDescriptionForCategory(m_cmdOptions, categoryIndex);
     }
 
-    m_sink->diagnoseRaw(Severity::Note, buf.getBuffer());
+    // Write help text to stdout
+    FileWriter stdoutWriter(stdout, WriterFlag::IsUnowned);
+    stdoutWriter.write(buf.getBuffer(), buf.getLength());
 
     return SLANG_OK;
 }