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Re: Slightly ambiguous wording in cppopts.texi
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:02:59 -0800
- Subject: Re: Slightly ambiguous wording in cppopts.texi
- References: <20031121070508.GA12511@disaster.jaj.com>
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> Line 459 of doc/cppopts.texi is a standalone paragraph,
>
> Use of these options is discouraged.
>
> but there's no real way to know which options the sentence is referring to.
> Presumably some of the preceeding ones, but there is no formatting hint
> to tell the reader how far back to draw the "line of discouragement,"
> if you follow my meaning.
-idirafter, -iprefix, -iwithprefix, and -iwithprefixbefore. I would
suggest you just delete that line; I wrote it when I was younger and
less experienced in all the crazy things people do with their include
paths.
zw