[Bug target/4605] [alpha-osf]mips-tfile & spaced directory names
markus dot schoepflin at comsoft dot de
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Wed Jan 14 08:12:00 GMT 2009
------- Comment #16 from markus dot schoepflin at comsoft dot de 2009-01-14 08:11 -------
Subject: Re: [alpha-osf]mips-tfile & spaced directory names
gnu at the-meissners dot org wrote:
> ------- Comment #15 from gnu at the-meissners dot org 2009-01-13 23:13 -------
> I suspect this needs to be solved in gcc.c with the specs handling, and you
> probably need something to quote the white space in filename, so that it
> doesn't break the file into separate arguments. Only some alpha and mips port
> use ASM_FINAL_SPEC which calls mips-tfile.
I don't think this can be solved in gcc at all. AFAICT the quoting is all
there as needed, but the system assembler simply can't handle file names
with embedded blanks.
> I must admit that when I wrote mips-tfile as a quick hack in 1990 to get around
> the problem of having to use the MIPS assembler which provided no debug
> inteferface until a MIPS port of GAS was done, that the hack would still be in
> use 18 years later.
Nothing is as long-lived as a quick hack, isn't it?
Markus
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