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Re: Can You Put Comments Into GCC Compiler Options Files?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:59:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: Can You Put Comments Into GCC Compiler Options Files?
- References: <mcrhbbv2anx.fsf@google.com>
Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
> I believe lThese option files were adapted from Windows, and they are
> primarily for use on Windows, which has much stricter limits on command
> line length than most Unix systems. We should implement whatever
> Windows implements.
IIRC they were adapted from DJGPP, which got them from Borland C.
Neither of these allowed comments, because who knows what a "comment" is
for every single program out there?
Historically, @files were generated by the Makefile just before they
were used. There was never a need to add documentation inside them.