integrated -save-temps and the death of specs

[Anthony Green]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 23:06, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> my plan after this patch is to:
> 
> 	- change the master specs to use "./cc1 -E" instead of cpp0
> 	  (and use -fpreprocessed on the output).
> 
> 	- implement target macros to be called with a string of
> 	options, which will return additional options to pass to the
> 	assembler, linker, etc etc.  i'll provide memoizeable
> 	functions to read options, so we don't reparse the command
> 	options again and again.
> 
> 	- convert at least one port from specs to this new mechanism,
> 	as an example.

You make it sounds so simple!  I thought there were still many open
issues.  Start with this thread:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-06/msg01552.html

AG