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Re: RFA: Pass --help= switch on to sub-processes
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 28 Mar 2007 07:36:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFA: Pass --help= switch on to sub-processes
- References: <m3vegl3ape.fsf@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> Please may I apply the following patch to fix PR driver/31353 ? It
> fixes the gcc driver so that --help=target is passed on to the
> pre-processor, assembler and linker as --target-help, and any other
> --help=... option is just passed on as --help. (Which was the
> nearest equivalent in those subprocesses).
What happens today when not using GNU as and/or not using GNU ld?
What would happen with your patch?
In any case this patch (which seems reasonable to me but which I can't
approve) would require a change to the documentation.
Ian