Re: Plugin API Comments

[Sean Callanan <spyffe at cs dot sunysb dot edu>]

> Rather than invent a new quoting syntax, why not just split the
> arguments up?  If each a plugin has a name, you could use that name in
> subsequent -f arguments.  E.g., if the name of the plugin in
> "plugin.so" is "foo", perhaps:
>
>    -fplugin=/path/to/plugin.so -ffoo-arg1=value1 -ffoo-arg2=value2
>
> The actual spelling could be "-fplugin-$NAME-arg" if you think the
> above is too likely to clash with already existing (or future)
> argument names.

Tom's idea is similar to precedent.  GCC already has the -Wl flag;  
maybe we could just use a similar mechanism?  From the man page:
--
-Wl,option
           Pass option as an option to the linker.  If option  
contains commas,
           it is split into multiple options at the commas.
--
So perhaps we could do something like
--
-Wplugin-$NAME,arg=value

If we require a one-to-one correspondence between -Wplugin parameters  
and parameters passed to the plugin, then this resolves both the issue  
of identifying which parameter maps to which argument, and also the  
problem of pathnames with odd characters.

Sean