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From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support multilib-aware target lib flags self-specs overriding
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 18:00:05 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.16.2206011754190.13405@arjuna.pair.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <or1qwot3u5.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org>

On Fri, 20 May 2022, Alexandre Oliva via Gcc-patches wrote:
>
> This patch introduces -multiflags, short for multilib TFLAGS, as an
> option that does nothing by default, but that can be added to TFLAGS
> and mapped to useful options by driver self-specs.
>
> I realize -m is reserved for machine-specific flags, which this option
> sort-of isn't, but its intended use is indeed to stand for
> machine-specific flags, so it's kind of ok.  But that's just my
> official excuse, the reason I couldn't help picking it up is that it
> is a portmanteau of multi[lib] and TFLAGS.

Ooh, a bikeshedding opportunity!
Not liking the "-m"-space infringement:

-frob-multiflags?
-forward-multiflags?
or why not just
-fmultiflags?

brgds, H-P

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-01 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-20 19:13 Alexandre Oliva
2022-05-28  7:02 ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-06-01 22:00 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson [this message]
2022-06-03  7:15   ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-06-28 13:32     ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-10-06  8:24       ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-11-05  9:23         ` Alexandre Oliva

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