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Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support


On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:27:12AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is
> > what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options.
> > Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the
> > file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options.
> > On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have
> > feature.
> 
> 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.

Personally, I think that's OK.  Document ./@file.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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