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Re: RFA: Extending --help
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:09:00 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: RFA: Extending --help
- References: <m3k5zk76px.fsf@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701192151280.10489@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <45B49573.5080007@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702082240080.10525@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <45CC4227.5040106@redhat.com>
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Correct. I know that this information should be obtainable by reading
> the info file, but that can be quite tedious and it is sometimes out of
> date. Knowing which optimizations are enabled at a given -O level is
> quite helpful when trying to track down a bug that only appears with
> some level of optimization enabled.
Well, and your patch also allows us to much more easily verify whether
our documentation matches the actual implementation. :-) Certainly a
good thing!
Gerald