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Re: Suggestion for option
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for option
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 2001 21:13:40 +0100
- Cc: rjvbertin at hotmail dot com (RenE J.V. Bertin), pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200107272003.f6RK3aD02582@phal.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Joern Rennecke spake:
>> What happens to those people when/if they use -fsyntax-only? :) I guess one
>
> If that is a problem, they just stop using -fsyntax-only (unless they
> go and fix the compiler).
But, uh, if the compile stops with errors, whyever would they care about
the contents of the stuff shoved down the FIFO? It's garbaged anyway;
this way it's just almost nothing, rather than garbage.
> However, for the option under discussion it was stipulated it should
> become the new default, and hence more stringent rules apply.
Oh yes, we should be sure it doesn't break anything sane (not that I can
see it doing so).
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