Re: Patch: FYI: support -? and -X

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 00:37 US/Eastern, Ranjit Mathew wrote:

> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > +/* Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003  Free Software 
> > Foundation
>
> Is it not simpler to write "1999-2003" here? At
> least that's what we've been asked to follow
> here in a certain large MNC that employs me. :-)
> I mean, if the legal droids here do not have a
> problem with it, it should be generally OK - not
> sure if this runs afoul of the GNU Coding Standards.

Look at the gcc-patches or gcc archives there was a big
thing in the past two years about this.


> > +	      printf ("gij: currently no -X options are recognized\n");
>
> printf ("%s: currently no -X options are recognized\n", argv[0]);
>
> Or not? (Since I seem to remember from an earlier
> discussion that it's a convention *not mandated* by
> ANSI C or ISO Cxx that argv[0] is the name by
> which the program was invoked.)


The GNU Coding Standards says otherwise again.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski