--help -- very nice, but undocumented

Marty Leisner leisner@rochester.rr.com
Sun Apr 4 15:38:00 GMT 1999


I tried egcs 1.1.2

egcs --version reports
egcs-2.91.66

but an older version reports:
%/usr/bin/egcs --version
egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)

(which is more useful, I think in terms of 1.0.3 or 1.1.2, not 2.90.29)

I didn't see documentation on the --help option in the info file
(I tried it and it worked).  Hallelulah!!  I've been using gcc for 12
years and been waiting for this.

Also
	gcc -v --help
gives help on the subprograms (very useful).

Is there an easy way to get help on cpp?
I did:
%gcc -Wp,--help -E -x c /dev/null  

Very nice...



Marty Leisner
leisner@rochester.rr.com


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