COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS help

[Chung-Ju Wu]

2013/5/11 Charles Smith <cts.private@yahoo.com>:
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> Does anyone know who creates COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS and how I can influence it?
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> I'm using cpp to expand some c code for data-mining, and it magically finds some header files I don't want it to.   When I run cpp with the -v
> option it's clear why - that variable has the information in it.
>
> But it's not in my environment, and that symbol, COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS, is
> not in the /usr/bin/cpp executable.  I do find it in the binary files in /usr/lib/gcc, but the gcc.gnu.org online manual's keyword index doesn't mention COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS and I don't find a way to search it.
> There's no information to be found in google about who creates
> COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS or why.
>
> So any clue will be greatly appreciated.
>

COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS is created by gcc driver itself,
and then destroyed when its jobs have been done.

You can refer to gcc/gcc.c, set_collect_gcc_options() implementation.


Best regards,
jasonwucj