Comments wanted on an idea of changing the binutils version

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:29:22PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > 2002-01-08  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
> > 
> >         * gcc.c (option_map): Remove --version.
> >         (process_command): Handle -fversion following the GNU Coding
> >         Standards.  Partially addresses PR other/704.
> 
> Hmm.  Haven't tried this out since I can't bootstrap the 3.1 branch
> on Solaris at the moment, but the GNU Coding standards specify the
> behavior of --version, not of -fversion.  If we don't support --version
> we do not comply.

The driver translates all --X into -fX for the compiler.  So we can
actually do things like --syntax-only, --hosted, --unsigned-char, etc,
and cc1 will still see -f*.

Phil

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