Re: Why do -ffixed-line-length and -free... use - instead of =?

[Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>]

Brooks Moses <brooks.moses@codesourcery.com> wrote on Tue, 07 Nov 2006:
> However, for -ffixed-line-length and -ffree-line-length, the syntax is
>
>   -ffixed-line-length-<value>
>
> where the value is separated by a - instead of an =.  This is confusing
> and hard to remember.
>
> Is there some reason that this is this way, other than the fact that
> it's been this way for a while?

I didn't see this stated explicitly, so let me note that this option  
was introduced for compatibility with g77, which used the syntax with  
a '-'.  IIRC originally the only allowed suffixes were '-72', '-132'  
and '-none', so it was not really a numerical option.  I think adding  
the canonical forms is a good thing.

- Tobi


----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.