On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 4:02 AM Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > On Jul 25 2020, Fāng-ruì Sòng wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:09 AM Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 24 2020, Fangrui Song via Gcc-patches wrote: > >> > >> > This is to mimick nearly lines. collect2 should filter out options like > >> > -fno-lto, -flto, -fuse-ld= before passing to ld. -f* are handled by case > >> > 'f'. --ld-path needs its own `else if`. > >> > >> If you handle --ld-path as -fld-path then you don't need that. > >> > > > > --ld-path is a deliberate design choice. -f* is not suitable > > (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gcc/2020-July/233089.html ) > > clang has several other --*-path= (e.g. --cuda-path) > > I don't agree with that opinion. --foo and -ffoo are equivalent and > interchangeable. > > Andreas.
For options only affecting linking, -f* are minority. -fgnu-tm enables language-level constructs. -flto/-fopenmp/-fprofile-arcs/-fsanitize=*/etc affect code generation. -fuse-ld= is an exception. The other options (the majority) don't start with -f.
