4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Steven Bosscher]

On Thursday 25 August 2005 07:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have
> > feature.
>
> Do you really want every application to work around a broken propritary
> system?

GCC supports many proprietary systems and non-GNU systems, even
though that isn't the purpose of the GCC project according to the
mission statement.  Not everyone is happy about that, but that's
just the way it is.  IMHO if you're going to support proprietary
systems then you might as well try your best at it.  Mark's patch
is apparently necessary for good Windows support, and something
that other compilers there support, so why not have it in GCC?

> Looks like gcc is really heading down the wrong way..

So which way would you suggest it should go?

Gr.
Steven