non coherent options, switches and descriptions

[Neil Booth]

Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:12:46PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > 
> > > $ gcc -V
> > > gcc: argument to `-V' is missing
> > 
> > There is no real way around this one.  Most of the binutils use -v to
> > mean "enable verbose" and -V to mean "display version".  The fact that
> > gcc has a different interpretation of these two options is just one of
> > those things.
> 
> There was general agreement, some time ago, that -V's current effect
> was basically useless; perhaps it could be replaced by the binutils
> effect.

Sounds like a plan to me 8-)

Neil.