Re: Specifying command line arguments in a file?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:

    Geoff> Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@hks.com> writes:

    >> IS there a secret handshake between gcc and ld to get a large
    >> number of object files to be linked to ld without going through
    >> exce and without trying to mangle up a linker script?

    Geoff> Typically you put the object files in a .a library.

Yeah, but if there are really tons of them then you can't build *that*
command-line either, so you end up building the library .o file by .o
file, which is a pain, too.  And anyhow a .a has different semantics,
unless you have --full-archive available.

For full generality, you just can't get around this problem.

We need to bite the bullet and implement -@.  In fact, we should do it
in libiberty: write a routine to transform a file into an argv array.
Then, we can bury whatever weird quoting semantics we want in there,
and use this code everywhere.

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