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Re: A patch for g77spec.c


>  > At least by doing this, maybe I'll inspire others to discuss and
>  > maybe provide better ways of doing this overall.  That is, gcc
>  > itself should support --help and --version.
>It's been successfully argued that gcc should support some kind of
>--help option per the GNU standards.  The trick is *how* to support
>that option given the number of command line arguments that exist
>in the compiler.

Oh, that's easy -- do what g77 does!  Describe only a few options
and punt to the Info docs.  :)

        tq vm, (burley)


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