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Re: gcc doesn't accept specs options anymore
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- To: Christian Bruel <christian dot bruel at st dot com>, Peter Bigot <bigotp at acm dot org>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org " <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 07:56:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: gcc doesn't accept specs options anymore
FWIW RTEMS has long used BSP provided spec files from the command line. We have issues with using them in that they are a clear place where we depend on something that is compiler specific. But we do use them. If the support for the -specs option suddenly disappeared, we would have a problem.
--joel
Christian Bruel <christian.bruel@st.com> wrote:
>> I think http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49858 is
>> essentially this issue. It can probably be closed as "won't fix",
>> though I notice the spec file format is still documented in the user
>> manual.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
>yes, same root problem, although BSP design is a different usage (yet
>quite common). I wouldn't be in favor moving all the spec support to the
>GCC internals if this deprecates the â-specs=â user option .
>
>many thanks
>
>Christian