[RFC] Let's kill specs, completely rewrite gcc.c

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:38:00PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> I hate to be a kill joy, but specs are quite heavily used, especially by
> embedded programers ...

They never should have been though, IMO.

> The main use of specs in this case, is to override the default libraries,
[...]
> A third use of specs is to override default options on a local basis

Both of which can be easily achieved by using a script to 
invoke the gcc driver instead.

I'm in favour of a non-backwards-compatible re-design, if
it actually turns out be clean and maintainable.


r~