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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