4.2 Project: "@file" support

Ranjit Mathew rmathew@gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 09:54:00 GMT 2005


Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is
> what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options.
> Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the
> file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options.
> On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have
> feature.

FWIW, I should note that GCJ already has support for @file
style list of input files:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Input-and-output-files.html

and has had it for quite some time now.

Ranjit.

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