c/2678: gcc/g++ should stick compilation options into the .o file

[Phil Edwards]

The following reply was made to PR c/2678; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c/2678: gcc/g++ should stick compilation options into the .o file
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 04:07:40 -0400

 On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:16:00AM -0000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
 >  >After some sleep, I've concluded that my original idea of using the
 >  >print_switch_values routine might be stupid.  I don't think people would like
 [...]
 >  >showing up in their object files, for example.  (Or do you?)
 >  
 >  Yes, it would be perfectly OK to put that all into a .comment or .note
 >  section.  Those sections DO NOT get loaded into main memory at run time,
 >  and if necessary, `strip' and be used to remove them after the .o is built.
 
 I know they don't have SHF_ALLOC set, I was concerned with diskspace.
 Which is probably cheap enough to not be worth caring about, on further
 reflection.
 
 For that matter, I had planned to have this controlled by a flag,
 on by default.  People really low on space can always use the flag.
 (something like -fno-note-options)
 
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