Re: Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:59:04PM -0800, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> : The driver distributes options to the tools that they are intended
> : to work with, for the most part passing flags through unchanged to
> : the preprocessor (OK, that goes away now for the most part), main
> : compiler, linker, and assembler.  -Wl, is a mechanism that lets
> : anything be passed, including switches that have a conflicting
> : meaning.  For -R there is no conflicting meaning.
> 
> Ok, so the basic complaint is that since no other tool uses the -R
> option the gcc compiler driver ought to be smart enough to known that
> it can pass -R on to the linker, right ?

Yes, pretty much.  With or without an incompatability warning.  (I for one
would have appreciated knowing about -Wl back in my student days, before
I had broken the info(1) program to my will and could read the GCC manual.)


In another message,

> :     3)  I feel that we should recognize and warn about the problem
> :         rather than passing it through and exacerbating the
> :         misunderstanding.
> 
> Do you mean that gcc should never accept -R, even on a Solaris
> targeted toolchain ?

No, I meant that on systems where we /don't/ pass -R, we should warn.


Phil

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