gcc -I- feature

[Andrew Pinski]

On Sep 30, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Neil Booth wrote:

> nmake Technical Support wrote:-
>
>> This is to request reinstatement of the -I- command line directory
>> search option.  Sorry for the late request, we only recently became
>> aware that -I- is deprecated in gcc 4.0.
>
> I agree this should not be removed (have been removed?).  It is now
> provided by a large number of compilers and people have found good
> uses for it.

I don't see why you could not use -iquote for 4.0 and above and -I -
in 3.4 and below.

-iquote=DIR -iquote=DIR2 -I a
==
-I DIR -I DIR2 -I -
but without turning off searching in the contained directory.

In fact -iquote gives better control than -I - did.


-- Pinski