RFC: [patch] launching compiler through a wrapper

[Andrew Pinski]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Alexandre Oliva wrote on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:29:19PM CET:
>> On Mar  6, 2009, Thomas Quinot <quinot@adacore.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I would like to propose a new feature of the gcc driver to allow
>> > launching the underlying compiler in a debugger session.
> [...]
>> I like this idea.
>
> Me too.  But methinks there already exists such a feature.  Quoting
> gcc.info:
>
> `-wrapper'
>     Invoke all subcommands under a wrapper program. It takes a single
>     comma separated list as an argument, which will be used to invoke
>     the wrapper:
>
>          gcc -c t.c -wrapper gdb,--args
>
>     This will invoke all subprograms of gcc under "gdb -args", thus
>     cc1 invocation will be "gdb -args cc1 ...".

Yes this was added by http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg00395.html .

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski