On 8 January 2018 at 22:07, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Tim van Deurzen <t...@kompiler.org> wrote:
>> I've been spending some time the past few weeks implementing p0515r2,
>> i.e. the proposal for consistent comparisons for C++ (aka the spaceship
>> operator).
>
> Great!
>
>> I've received some very valuable help on the IRC channel, but
>> I'm still a little bit stuck. Note, I'm completely new to the GCC
>> codebase and am very much still getting oriented.
>>
>> Following advice from some of the people in IRC channel I implemented
>> parsing the new token in libcpp and I seem to be successfully parsing it
>> and creating a new AST node. As this feature is not in the C++ standard
>> yet, I wanted to add a command line flag to enable usage of the new
>> operator and ignoring it otherwise. I managed to get cc1plus to accept
>> the parameter, but it seems that when I invoke my own g++ binary with
>> that parameter, it complains about unknown parameters.
>>
>> I'm perfectly happy to dig further on my own, but I get the feeling I'm
>> missing some documentation / resource somewhere that might help me out.
>> Is there some documentation about adding and passing around parameters
>> that will be used both in libcpp and the C++ front-end? What would be
>> the best place to look to learn more about how part of GCC this is
>> structured? I want to make sure I go about this correctly.
>
> There's a gccint.info documentation file, the Options node seems like
> what you're looking for.  You will want to add a new option to
> c-family/c.opt.

operator<=> is now in the working paper though, so does it need its
own option? IMHO it should just be enabled for -std=c++2a and
-std=gnu++2a, and not otherwise.

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