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Re: whither specs?
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:01:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: whither specs?
>>>>> Geoff Keating writes:
Geoff> Can you give examples of the sort of things that users might like to
Geoff> change? I'm thinking that a lot of them are along the lines of
Geoff> "please pass this flag to the linker".
We just had the case with the GCC 3.1 release that the specs did
not match the version of IBM's Parallel Environment that a user had
installed. With a text specs file, they were able to edit LINK_SPEC and
STARTFILE_SPEC to match their version of the software.
David