FWIW RTEMS has long used BSP provided spec files from the command line. We have issues with using them in that they are a clear place where we depend on something that is compiler specific. But we do use them. If the support for the -specs option suddenly disappeared, we would have a problem.
--joel Christian Bruel <christian.br...@st.com> wrote: >> I think http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49858 is >> essentially this issue. It can probably be closed as "won't fix", >> though I notice the spec file format is still documented in the user >> manual. >> >> Peter >> > >yes, same root problem, although BSP design is a different usage (yet >quite common). I wouldn't be in favor moving all the spec support to the >GCC internals if this deprecates the ‘-specs=’ user option . > >many thanks > >Christian
