Re: proposal: Default settings from environment

["Neal D. Becker" <nbecker at hns dot com>]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:16 pm, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > I think an easy way to do this would be for gcc to read default values
> > from the environment.  I imagine it would not be difficult to add such a
> > patch.
> >
> > Before I submit a patch, I'd like to know what others think about this
> > idea, or would anyone like to propose an alternative.
>
> It's been proposed many times before.  The reason this is not done by
> default is that it makes bug hunting more difficult; now the "default"
> environment cannot be easily predicted based on the platform.  Your users
> might then report bugs to us that we have no way of reproducing, because
> the -foo option was in use without the user ever having typed it.
>

This is a good point.  I think that if gcc -v reported all options, including 
settings from the environment, that this problem would be addressed.  When 
reporting bugs, users are supposed to include the output of gcc -v, right?