The preprocessor and lack of support for -V

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:03:48PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> What is the general opinion on this?  Should I try to hack the driver
> to fix this?  Or should we document dropping support for -V and actually
> drop it?  Or something else?

Part of something related to this came up last year under

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-10/subjects.html#00279
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-10/subjects.html#00732

I think there's just too much going on outside the control of -V to make it
worth fixing.  We'd end up moving a *lot* of things into the -V-controlled
directories, I think; the discussions above were just an example.

Phil

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