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: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:19:03 +0000

 Sean McNeil wrote:-
 
 > It would appear that this issue has been addressed somewhere else.  It
 
 Hmm.
 
 > was a bug in how the cc1plus executable handled switches.  That is why I
 > gave the patch to cp/g++spec.c that recognized the switch -include as
 > taking an argument.
 > 
 > I'm not exactly sure how it was addressed.  I'm suspicious that this
 > problem may come back later.  It is peculiar that c++spec.c has to know
 > about switches that take arguments at all.  I'm talking about the check:
 
 If the driver doesn't know what takes arguments, it doesn't know
 reliably where the start and end of a switch is.
 
 > 
 >         else if (((argv[i][2] == '\0'
 >                      && (char *)strchr ("bBVDUoeTuIYmLiA", argv[i][1])
 > != NULL)
 >                     || strcmp (argv[i], "-Xlinker") == 0
 >                     || strcmp (argv[i], "-Tdata") == 0))
 > 
 > Perhaps the cpp initialization now pulls the -include arguments off the
 > list?
 
 If there is a driver problem it hasn't been worked around in cc1plus.
 
 Neil.