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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: .eh_frame section on alpha
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41DA653D.6030101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041229073919.8EEE02356C@thoreau.thistledown.com.au>

Hi Simon,

>>However, I also think it would be a good idea to have an assembler
>>option to not create the unwind information.

> Strongly agreed :-)  I can come up with a patch, but I'm not sure what a
> good option name would be.  --no-auto-eh-frame seems a little unwieldy.

How about: --no-create-eh-frame ?

I see no problem with long switch names.  It is better that they are 
expressive and tell the user what they are doing.  Shorter, more compact 
switch names are often confusing and can lead to user misunderstanding.

Cheers
   Nick


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-04  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-24 13:22 Simon Burge
2004-12-24 15:00 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-12-29  7:39   ` Simon Burge
2005-01-04  9:36     ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2005-01-04  9:58       ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-01-04 10:06         ` Nick Clifton
2005-01-04 17:51           ` Richard Henderson
2005-01-04 21:27             ` Simon Burge
2005-01-04 22:40               ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-01-05  2:17                 ` Simon Burge
2005-01-05  3:14                   ` Richard Henderson

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