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Re: integrated -save-temps and the death of specs
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: aldyh at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 02 05:41:04 EST
- Subject: Re: integrated -save-temps and the death of specs
i got very upset at specs files today and decided to start the painful
process towards getting rid of them altogether.
I think that would be a major step *backwards*. The advantage of specs
file is that you can make changes to the way commands are called without
having to recompile anything.
I would much prefer to go in the direction of having *more* specs files
(for example language-specific) so that we become less depenendent on
the particular binary of the driver being used. We have had lots of
problems with this in the past.