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Re: [patch] General info in AS listings

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: Santiago Urueña Pascual <suruena at gmail dot com>, Binutils mailing list <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:01:28 -0400
Subject: Re: [patch] General info in AS listings
References: <1df0a0c40803301443x39b18355iccacb92e743b7ea5@mail.gmail.com> <47F0C185.7030209@redhat.com>

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:48:37AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> The next thing to consider is whether the feature is actually necessary ?  
> For example it seems to me that all of the information generated by your 
> new option could also be obtained from the command line or via a wrapper 
> script.  So why add the option to the assembler ?  The point here being 
> that it is a bad idea to add unnecessary options - feature bloat - because 
> it just makes room for more bugs.

I think it's useful.  Identifying information is a big aid to
reproducibility, both for toolchain support and file archeology; both
of which I spend a lot of time doing :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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