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Re: -V, can we remove it?
- From: Mike Stump <mstump at apple dot com>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:51:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: -V, can we remove it?
On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Neil Booth wrote:
Mike Stump wrote:-
Can we remove -V?
I thought Geoff put in some effort to keep it going.
I just audited the code, and yes, it is way more bullet proof than it
used to me, though, I still has some reservations about it.
For example, if you need to read the info files of an older gcc to
figure out what the command line flags are, it isn't clear to me a user
could get the right version. Also, if a user wanted to read an older
manual page, they would be out of luck.
Additionally, we know that the C++ abi aren't always preserved, and
yet, it isn't clear to me that a user could code in C++ with an older
compiler and find the right libraries to link against.
And then there is Java... Hopeless.
Also, I don't think gcov can be used on older compilers... Last time I
tried, it died a horrible death.
And to top if off, I don't think the translations that one used to get
with older compilers would work as well after installing a new compiler.
So, yes, -V works, if you aren't too demanding and don't need it to
work.