On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:27:12AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is > > what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options. > > Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the > > file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options. > > On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have > > feature. > > Without getting into whether it's a good idea to overcome OS > limitations in this way, I do think that response files are a useful > feature even on Unix systems. But on Unix systems I think we need to > at least consider the possibility of real source file names starting > with '@'. The patch as it stands will have a rather perplexing effect > if such a file is compiled. Maybe that's OK.
Personally, I think that's OK. Document ./@file. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
