Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:00:50AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> FWIW, I should note that GCJ already has support for @file
>> style list of input files:
>> 
>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Input-and-output-files.html
>> 
>> and has had it for quite some time now.
>
>DJGPP and Cygwin hosted programs will never see these options, because
>the runtime has already expanded them if appropriate.
>
>Which means your documentation is *wrong* for those platforms; for
>them, *any* command line option is legal in @file.

Unless the @file contains a file that begins with a '\@' that got passed
on to gcc, presumably.  I guess that would mean that you'd need to do
some complicated quoting to actually pass a file beginning with '@' to
gcc.

cgf