Can You Put Comments Into GCC Compiler Options Files?

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Thu Feb 24 17:50:00 GMT 2011


DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

>>   Couldn't GCC (and binutils) on djgpp set
>> _CRT0_FLAG_DISALLOW_RESPONSE_FILES so that GCC's routines get used
>> to expand the response files instead of the runtime's routines?
>
> I suppose it could.  I'm not sure how much confusion that would cause
> (probably little if any), but as long as djgpp users don't break if
> they *don't* use comments, I don't see the harm in it.

Is it really worth worrying about this?  Are comments in response files
really of much value?

Ian



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