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Re: cpp discrepancies
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: cpp discrepancies
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:31:16 -0400
- cc: craig at jcb-sc dot com, martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, Marc dot Espie at liafa dot jussieu dot fr, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:02:16 +0100 (BST), Joern Rennecke wrote:
>> Fine. Shall I make -lang-FOO work just for the `cpp' driver (which
>> never calls the linker) or shall I change the docs to say use -xFOO?
>
>Why don't you call it --lang-FOO ? That would not conflict with -l
>and would me more consistent with the general long option naming
>scheme, too.
The only reason to have -lang-FOO work in cpp is that the docs say
-lang-FOO works. (Because that's the switch for the internal
executable.) If we're gonna change it at all, we should just go with
-xFOO.
zw