Using .opt files for target options

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Well, it's your call, but I'm not sure it's worthy of a news entry.
> Aside (perhaps) from some very minor consistency improvements,
> it shouldn't be a user-visible change.

I'm of the opinion that internal cleanups are as important as changes
which are directly user-visible and worth a news entry.  It's just that,
historically, we haven't given sufficient credit for nearly *all* changes
-- and I'd like to see that changing. ;-)

Gerald