RFC: Rename --enable-intermodule

Geoffrey Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Wed Jan 5 00:18:00 GMT 2005


Kelley Cook <kcook-/MQLu3FmUzdAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I believe that the build option --enable-intermodule is not well named.
> 
> If it followed the pattern other GCC build options, it wrongly implies
> that IMA isn't compiled into GCC unless specified.
> 
> I propose that it is renamed --enable-build-using-IMA which is generic
> enough that other projects in the tree could use the same option if
> they wish to tweak their makefiles to take advantage of the IMA
> optimization.

I have no objection, except that I would use the word 'intermodule' rather
than the abbreviation 'IMA', as people tend to be confused by the latter.

Perhaps you could propose a patch?



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