From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2694 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2011 16:46:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 2680 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jul 2011 16:46:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:46:33 +0000 From: "jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug driver/49631] New: Driver --help should use common help code X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: driver X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: UNCONFIRMED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:46:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00242.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49631 Summary: Driver --help should use common help code Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: driver AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: jsm28@gcc.gnu.org At present gcc.c has its own code to handle --help and producing help text for driver options and the code in opts.c excludes driver options. This should be changed so that driver options have help text in the .opt files and this text is used by the common machinery in producing --help output. (I don't know what division between the driver and cc1 in producing that output would then be appropriate.)