On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:21 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Sergei Organov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway, my gcc docs only mention: > > > > --target-help > > --help > > --version > > --param NAME=VALUE > > Yeah, it looks like the double dash long options got added without > ever being documented. > > For the record, they were added here: > > Sat Mar 6 15:08:59 1993 Richard Stallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > * gcc.c: Handle long options by translation to old-style ones. > (translate_options): New function. > (option_map): New table. > > and the table has been kept more or less up to date ever since.
That's new news :). Anyway I was answering a proposal by D.J. to provide a library function and my understanding was that it was intended to be used beyond GCC as a portable way to implement file as argument list (even if a call has to be added project by project), and in this GNU project context I believe it makes sense to add a double dash long option for it even if GCC in practice does not offer them. Laurent
