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Re: [RFC] Use .opt for the SPARC port
> But what happens to this textual description? As I understand it,
> it doesn't get copied anywhere outside the .opt file. If you just
> want to describe the meaning of the mask in the .opt file, why not
> not add a comment using "; ..."?
OK. The point is to not end up with a mere list of masks without descriptions
for them.
> Again, I don't see what this gains over my proposal. Why force
> there to be a third field if it's ignored? .opt files now serve
> as the declaration point for target masks so I don't see what's
> wrong with using comments in those files to document the masks.
Note that the third field was deemed optional.
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Eric Botcazou