Re: RFC: Named warnings

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:14:54AM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> FWIW I intend to create a lang-specific file "opts.def", a top-level
> opts.def and a target-specific opts.def that are line-oriented awk-parsable
> files containing the switches, help text and other relevant details
> details about each switch (as is currently done in a big table in
> c-opts.c, but with no help text).  Each line would be a field, and
> each option a record, separated by a blank line.

Yes, /please/.  The split between *-opts.c and */lang-options.h is just
annoying, and unnecessary.

Phil

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