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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>,
	Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>,
	binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forward GCC '-v' command-line option to binutils assembler, linker (was: [PING] nvptx: forward '-v' command-line option to assembler, linker)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:32:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <887f5ccb-e7b7-50e8-7356-24e4f4415104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rmd84n6.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net>

Hi Thomas,


>>> +/* Linker supports '-v' option.  */
>>> +#define LINK_SPEC "%{v}"
> 
> ..., Tom rightfully asked:
> 
>> [...] I wonder, normally we don't pass -v to ld, and need -Wl,-v for
>> that.
> 
> So, on my quest for making things uniform/simple, I now wonder: should we
> also forward GCC '-v' to binutils linker, or is there a reason to not do
> that?

Not really no.  Historically of course this has not been done, so changing
it now might surprise a few users.  But it should not be that big of an
issue.


>> So, any particular reason why we would do things differently for
>> nvptx?

Nope, none at all.

Harmonizing the effect of the -v option sounds like a good idea to me.

Cheers
   Nick


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-22 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <MentorEmbedded/nvptx-tools/pull/31@github.com>
     [not found] ` <MentorEmbedded/nvptx-tools/pull/31/c1094932979@github.com>
     [not found]   ` <874k185ak4.fsf@dem-tschwing-1.ger.mentorg.com>
     [not found]     ` <b2aa158a-28b7-04a9-f657-7b5e3d3604ed@codesourcery.com>
     [not found]       ` <871qw08orn.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net>
     [not found]         ` <820c4820-aca2-29f2-8727-11aa3913ae68@suse.de>
2022-09-21  9:21           ` Thomas Schwinge
2022-09-22 11:32             ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2022-09-22 12:46               ` Richard Earnshaw

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