Add -iquote support

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Tue May 4 09:07:00 GMT 2004


Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:
>>[...]
>>Thank you for the quick update.  The documentation could use a little
>>polishing but let's not do that now.
>>
> It sounds to me like you (Zack) are convinced that -iquote is a useful
> thing and good to have.   My original concern was that it wasn't
> useful. I trust your judgement,and Apple also thinks its useful, and,
> apparently, so does Metrowerks.  So, if the -iquote part of Mike's
> patch is looking good technically, maybe we should put it in?

Yeah, we could put it in.  I was trying to avoid further option
proliferation by taking one out at the same time, but I was too
hasty earlier in saying the two changes had to be linked.

> I also agree with you that -I- doesn't sound very useful.  I think
> it's a good idea to see if we can kill it off, but I can see where
> Mike is coming from in terms of being reluctant to kill off a
> feature that people might be using.  It seems like we can separate
> the two issues, though; maybe we could sent out the can-we-kill-this
> message for -I- after checking in the -iquote bits?

Yes, this seems a sensible way forward.  Mike, what do you think?

zw



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