On Sun, 13 May 2012, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> These warnings are invisible when building but they may help to detect
> if an option is duplicated somewhere else with different purpose , so
> it would be better to make this an error,
> 
> Only 2 options in Ada trigger this warning, and their help text has no
> effect, since it gest overridden by the ones in c.opt. Fixing this
> properly would require language-specific namespace, so two options
> with the same name in different languages can have completely
> different help text (and Init() and other flags). Not something I am
> planning to work on in the future.
> 
> OK?

This is OK.  I don't think we want to support different help strings for 
different languages; if an option is supported for multiple languages, we 
should have a generic description of that option that is correct for all 
of them.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com