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Re: -A- for 3.0.
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: -A- for 3.0.
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:05:21 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:59:15AM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Neil Booth wrote:-
>
> > Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> >
> > > -D- would be more symmetric.
> >
> > OK; I'm happy with either.
>
> Let's go with -D-. Currently 3.0 will reject this; so scripts written
> for 3.1 that use "-A- -D-" will fail with 3.0.
>
> For this reason, I'll adjust 3.0, in the handler for OPT_D in
> cppinit.c, to silently ignore -D-. Then, "-A- -D-" will have the same
> behaviour on both, and the few people who do use -A- in its current
> form can at least have something doing the same thing that will be
> consistent across 3.x compilers (i.e. "-A- -D-").
That seems reasonable to me.
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