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Re: A patch for g77spec.c
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: A patch for g77spec.c
- From: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:57:29 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
> > 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)