compnerd added a comment.

While I can certainly appreciate the simplification this may afford, Im not 
sure if adding a new option here is really that valuable.  Options being added 
to the frontend are expensive because they can't be changed or removed.  If gcc 
has a similar frontend option, we may consider it for compatibility (as was the 
case for -fplugin).  In this case, yes, it is harder to type options that we 
are passing down, but they are backend options and not meant to be used by 
users in the general case.  The -Xclang and -mllvm options currently are 
available, and make it clear enough where the option is going.  Arguably this 
is a bad idea since it makes it easier to pull backend options into the 
frontend.  Is there a stronger reason for this other than aesthetics?


http://reviews.llvm.org/D13229



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