c++/10069: -include switch is improperly handled

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.co.uk
Sun Mar 16 11:17:00 GMT 2003


Sean McNeil wrote:-

> It would appear that this issue has been addressed somewhere else.  It

Hmm.

> was a bug in how the cc1plus executable handled switches.  That is why I
> gave the patch to cp/g++spec.c that recognized the switch -include as
> taking an argument.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how it was addressed.  I'm suspicious that this
> problem may come back later.  It is peculiar that c++spec.c has to know
> about switches that take arguments at all.  I'm talking about the check:

If the driver doesn't know what takes arguments, it doesn't know
reliably where the start and end of a switch is.

> 
>         else if (((argv[i][2] == '\0'
>                      && (char *)strchr ("bBVDUoeTuIYmLiA", argv[i][1])
> != NULL)
>                     || strcmp (argv[i], "-Xlinker") == 0
>                     || strcmp (argv[i], "-Tdata") == 0))
> 
> Perhaps the cpp initialization now pulls the -include arguments off the
> list?

If there is a driver problem it hasn't been worked around in cc1plus.

Neil.



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