On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:10:49PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > >I'm looking to the broken behavior of gfortran with its > >-r8, -i8, and -d8 options. gfortran/lang.opt contains > > You can't choose any name for front-end options. There are complicated > rules for determining whether an option is for the gcc driver or > preprocessor or front-end or back-end or assembler or linker or collect > or something else. If you deviate from these rules, you are asking for > trouble.
Jim, Thanks for the detailed explanation of how GCC options work. I'm currently thinking of proposing a RFC with recommendations on how to address this problem with gfortran. -- Steve
