Re: c++/10069: -include switch is improperly handled

[Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/10069; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
Cc: Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/10069: -include switch is improperly handled
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:52:02 +0000

 Sean McNeil wrote:-
 
 > No, I am not using PCH.  I'm trying to use the --include switch but it
 > isn't recognized by C++ as a switch with 2 arguments and so it gets
 > improperly handled.  It ends up reordering my switches and passes -O2 as
 > the file to include and tries to compile the include file as an input
 > file.
 
 By "C++" do you mean the g++ driver?  That may well be a bug.  If so,
 the place to look is cp/lang-specs.h.
 
 > So I observed that
 > 
 > gcc -include hack.h -O2 test.cc
 > 
 > would end up as
 > 
 > switches:
 > -include -O2
 > 
 > input files:
 > hack.h test.cc
 > 
 > thus it would fail because it cannot find the file "-O2" and because it
 > would precompile hack.h into hack.pch.
 
 LOL.  Though if you're not using PCH I don't understand your comment.
 
 Neil.