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Re: Why do -ffixed-line-lengt h and -free... use - instead of =?
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:48:34PM -0800, Brooks Moses wrote:
>Will do. A followup question: On IRC, Steve Kargl said that he'd prefer
>not to have a "-max-errors=none" synonym for "-max-errors=0" in the
>-max-errors patch that I submitted. The -ffixed-line-length option has
>an identical interpretation: Setting the value to 0 eliminates the
>limits. However, for this there is a "-ffixed-line-length-none" option.
>
>Thus, should I leave out the "-ffixed-line-length=none" and equivalent
>"-ffree..." option in the patch to rearrange these? It seems like it
>would be best to be consistent with these things.
I'd vote for removing the =none in favour of =0 throughout the options,
both on trunk and 4.2. Not sure if 4.1 should be changed now since it's
already released (i wouldn't).