How is lang.opt processed?

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:10:49PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote:
> Steve Kargl wrote:
> >I'm looking to the broken behavior of gfortran with its
> >-r8, -i8, and -d8 options.  gfortran/lang.opt contains
> 
> You can't choose any name for front-end options.  There are complicated 
> rules for determining whether an option is for the gcc driver or 
> preprocessor or front-end or back-end or assembler or linker or collect 
> or something else.  If you deviate from these rules, you are asking for 
> trouble.

Jim,

Thanks for the detailed explanation of how
GCC options work.  I'm currently thinking
of proposing a RFC with recommendations on
how to address this problem with gfortran.

-- 
Steve