tradtradcpp0, cpp spec bugs, and use of '|'
Neil Booth
neilb@earthling.net
Mon Nov 20 14:48:00 GMT 2000
Chris G. Demetriou wrote:-
> (1) probably simple to fix: -traditional-cpp is now called an
> unrecognized option, when given to gcc. (Not quite sure where the
> right place to fix this one would be...)
I'm not sure either.
> (2) when provided with those two options, the driver ends up trying to
> invoke tradtradcpp0. amusingly, if you add -ftraditional, it tries
> tradtradtradcpp0, etc... 8-)
:-)
> This would seem to be an issue with the use of '|' in the
> trad_capable_cpp spec:
>
> %{traditional|ftraditional|traditional-cpp:trad}cpp0
>
> from reading the documentation and code, '|' in this case doesn't mean
> "one or the other" it means "for each of those specified, output the
> bits after the colon." meaning, one of those flags -> trad. 2 ->
> tradtrad. 3-> tradtradtrad.
>
> I don't know if there's an easy way to fix this one at all...
I can't see an easy way; in fact I doubt there is. Do you have any
ideas, Zack? These specs get uglier as time goes by...
Neil.
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