On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:35:13PM -0700, Brian O'Mahoney wrote:
> Re: -print-* command-line switches misbehave or are misdocumented
>
> Why not just fix it, if not document the way it works, cutsie, "its a
> developer feature" fools no one and just hands ammunition
Re: -print-* command-line switches misbehave or are misdocumented
Why not just fix it, if not document the way it works, cutsie, "its a
developer feature" fools no one and just hands ammunition to the
anti Linux and GNU camp, they read these lists too!
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Greetings Brian
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> From: Andreas Schwab
> Cc: Dave Korn , i...@google.com,
> gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:30:35 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > Granted, I know very well
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:33:44 +0100
>> From: Dave Korn
>> CC: Eli Zaretskii , gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>> Well, the simple rule is "It can tell you where any program that gcc might
>> invoke lives", isn't it? That would explain why it can locate cc1, ld and
>> as,
>> but not
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> Granted, I know very well why it doesn't work with cpp and gcc. But I
> was talking about _user_documentation_, and from the user's point of
> view (as opposed to GCC programmer/hacker POV), the distinction is not
> quite obvious. Either the docs should be fixed to make
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:33:44 +0100
> From: Dave Korn
> CC: Eli Zaretskii , gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>
> >> e...@fencepost:~$ gcc -print-prog-name=cpp
> >> cpp
> >
> > Yeah, that's a clear doc bug. It used to work with "cpp", but not with
> > current gcc releases.
> >
> >> Similarly
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii > 3. -print-prog-name: Works only for some programs; manual text
>> misleading.
>>
>> The manual says:
>>
>> `-print-prog-name=PROGRAM'
>> Like `-print-file-name', but searches for a program such as `cpp'.
>>
>> It fails to say what pro
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> Some of the -print-* command-line switches either don't work as
> advertised or their documentation should be made more clear.
>
> All of the examples below are with the following version of GCC:
>
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free
Some of the -print-* command-line switches either don't work as
advertised or their documentation should be made more clear.
All of the examples below are with the following version of GCC:
gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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