Patch: FYI: support -? and -X

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Wed Aug 13 05:22:00 GMT 2003


On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 00:37 US/Eastern, Ranjit Mathew wrote:

> Tom Tromey wrote:
>> +/* Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003  Free Software 
>> Foundation
>
> Is it not simpler to write "1999-2003" here? At
> least that's what we've been asked to follow
> here in a certain large MNC that employs me. :-)
> I mean, if the legal droids here do not have a
> problem with it, it should be generally OK - not
> sure if this runs afoul of the GNU Coding Standards.

Look at the gcc-patches or gcc archives there was a big
thing in the past two years about this.


>
>
>> +	      printf ("gij: currently no -X options are recognized\n");
>
> printf ("%s: currently no -X options are recognized\n", argv[0]);
>
> Or not? (Since I seem to remember from an earlier
> discussion that it's a convention *not mandated* by
> ANSI C or ISO Cxx that argv[0] is the name by
> which the program was invoked.)


The GNU Coding Standards says otherwise again.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



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