Can gcc show status of a compilation?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Greatwolf <gmane.greatwolf@mamber.net> writes:

> Still at any rate, in my experience all the other compilers I've tried 
> (and I've tried quite a few of them), they do output some kind of 
> information on the file currently compiled. This includes, MSVC 
> compilers, Borland compilers and even Digital Mars compiler.
>
> Other times this is handy if for example, I don't want make to output the 
> commandlines being used in all it's verbosity, I would pass -s to not 
> echo the command. However, I would still like to see the status of the 
> files as it compiles.
>
> I'd imagine this is a rather easy feature to add to gcc, if I were to 
> implement this and submit a patch for it, would it be accepted? (assuming 
> coding style and etiquette are followed)

How do you feel about the output of the -Q option?

Ian