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Re: non coherent options, switches and descriptions
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, jg <jg at tk dot hm dot rd dot sanyo dot co dot jp>,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:43:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: non coherent options, switches and descriptions
- References: <3C3A8701.4000904@tk.hm.rd.sanyo.co.jp> <m34rlnv8q9.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com> <20020115174006.GQ13101@codesourcery.com>
Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:12:46PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > >
> > > $ gcc -V
> > > gcc: argument to `-V' is missing
> >
> > There is no real way around this one. Most of the binutils use -v to
> > mean "enable verbose" and -V to mean "display version". The fact that
> > gcc has a different interpretation of these two options is just one of
> > those things.
>
> There was general agreement, some time ago, that -V's current effect
> was basically useless; perhaps it could be replaced by the binutils
> effect.
Sounds like a plan to me 8-)
Neil.