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Re: other/5718: Inconsistent and backwards incompatible handling of '-o' switch.
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org,osv at javad dot ru, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:36:28 -0800
- Subject: Re: other/5718: Inconsistent and backwards incompatible handling of '-o' switch.
- References: <20020218122122.8121.qmail@sources.redhat.com> <20020218221733.GA2723@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:17:33PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> Zack / Nathan,
>
> I'd appreciate it if you would have a careful look at the attached patch,
> which I hope fixes this PR. It's an attempt to fix the issue of "MD
> -E -o file" specificying the preprocessed output file, but "MD -c -o
> file" specifying the output object file. This is what 2.95 appears to
> have done.
This seems to be the right thing, or at least a step in the right
direction.
zw