On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:04:22AM +0900, Neil Booth wrote: > Toon Moene wrote:- > > > >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. > > > > Ditto. Jim, are you reading from some documentation about this option > > processing that I couldn't find ? I've spend hours and hours to try to > > deduce the option processing rules from debugging various parts of the > > gcc driver, with no success. > > gcc -v > > is worth using just to see what it's passing to the underlying > programs. This would have immediately revealed that -i8 and -r8 > are being lost in the driver.
Yeah, tell us something we did not know! The problem, until Jim explained option handling, is *why* these were not passed to gfortran. Finding the info is/was non-obvious. What is even more appalling is that there is no way to inhibit the swallowing of the options. -- Steve
