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Re: naming convention for cc1, cc1plus, etc.
- To: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
- Subject: Re: naming convention for cc1, cc1plus, etc.
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 00:17:45 -0800
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010107172505.A26251@hg.cs.mu.oz.au>
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:25:05PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> What name should I give the executable for the Mercury front-end?
> `cc1mercury'? `mc1'? `gcc_mercury_compile'?
I'd vote for "mercury1" similar to "f771". I'd say "mc1" only
it's less clear what "m" stands for; if I were browsing files
and didn't know I'd actually guess "modula".
> And should it go in the top-level directory, or in the `mercury'
> subdirectory?
It has to go alongside the other compilers for -B to work properly.
r~