Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:27:12AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> [ re: @file ]

> Without getting into whether it's a good idea to overcome OS
> limitations in this way, I do think that response files are a useful
> feature even on Unix systems.  But on Unix systems I think we need to
> at least consider the possibility of real source file names starting
> with '@'.  The patch as it stands will have a rather perplexing effect
> if such a file is compiled.  Maybe that's OK.

Users are unlikely to name files in that way, but if for some reason
they want to, they can just write

gcc -c ./@foop.cpp

and of course the same goes for files with names that begin with '-'.

So I don't think this is much of an argument.