Re: Environment variable to pass in options?

[Louis Marascio <lmarasci at stevens-tech dot edu>]

>There's certainly a chance :-)
>
>Cygnus has had such a feature in our compilers for a while to satisfy
>some customer needs.
>
>That change was submitted to gcc2 and rejected.  There's some interesting
>issues that need to be resolved before we could integrate our patch.
>
>THe most important issue would be bug reports.
>
>We already have a tough time getting all the information we need to
>reproduce & fix problems.  Adding an environment variable of this
>nature just makes things harder since someone could put options in
>the environment variable, then forgot to tell us about them when
>they report a bug.
>
>I believe this was the primary objection to including such an option
>in gcc2.

Great, thanks for the information.. Hopefully it'll pop up sometime in the near
future :)

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