On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 04:26, Tim Rice wrote: > > > I have a use case where I would like gcc to accept -Kthread > and act as if it was passed -pthread. So -Kthread would > be a synonym for -pthread.
For a specific target, or universally? > I am having trouble figuring out how the option processing is handled. > Possibly in gcc/gcc.c but I am stumped here. You could use "specs" to tell the driver to use -pthread when -Kthread is given e.g. %{Kthread: -pthread} This can either be hardcoded into the 'gcc' driver program (which would be done in gcc/gcc.c or in a per-target file under gcc/config) or provided in a specs file with the -specs option (see the manual). The quick and dirty way to test that would be to dump the current specs to a file with 'gcc -dumpspecs > kthread.spec' and then edit the file so that everywhere you see %{pthread: xxx} you add %{Kthread: xxx} to make it do the same thing. Then you can run gcc -specs=kthread.spec -Kthread ...