How is lang.opt processed?

[Mike Stump]

On Friday, March 11, 2005, at 03:42  PM, James E Wilson wrote:
> If you do need to extend the system, then it is best to use option 
> names similar to existing ones.  For instance, -z and -Z are assumed 
> to be linker options, so if you need a new linker option then 
> something like -zthis or -Zthat might be a good choice.  This trick is 
> used by darwin which supports a slew of -Z* options that look mostly 
> like special linker options.

Let me further clarify.  There are a host of linker options that we 
translate (grep TRANSLATE in darwin.h) into -Z options, that start out 
with otherwise conflicting names -segblabla...