From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26592 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2005 19:58:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26545 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2005 19:58:16 -0000 Received: from fra-del-04.spheriq.net (HELO fra-del-04.spheriq.net) (195.46.51.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:16 +0000 Received: from fra-out-01.spheriq.net (fra-out-01.spheriq.net [195.46.51.129]) by fra-del-04.spheriq.net with ESMTP id j7UJwEx1017115 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:14 GMT Received: from fra-cus-02.spheriq.net (fra-cus-02.spheriq.net [195.46.51.38]) by fra-out-01.spheriq.net with ESMTP id j7UJwCJ6008420 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:13 GMT Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com (beta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.1.35]) by fra-cus-02.spheriq.net with ESMTP id j7UJw889002761 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:12 GMT Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 986EEDA4B; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics, from userid 60012) id BA09D474BE; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:40:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 7D2DA75999; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.bri.st.com (mail1.bri.st.com [164.129.8.218]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id F012E473EE; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:40:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from st.com (linsvr3.bri.st.com [164.129.13.81]) by mail1.bri.st.com (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id BVI00434 (AUTH "joern rennecke"); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:37:46 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4314B58A.80206@st.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:03:00 -0000 From: Joern RENNECKE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: DJ Delorie , ian@airs.com, mark@codesourcery.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-O-Spoofed: Not Scanned X-O-General-Status: No X-O-Spam1-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Spam2-Status: Not Scanned X-O-URL-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Virus1-Status: No X-O-Virus2-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Virus3-Status: No X-O-Virus4-Status: No X-O-Virus5-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Image-Status: Not Scanned X-O-Attach-Status: Not Scanned X-SpheriQ-Ver: 2.3.0 X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00919.txt.bz2 > applications will just work, but introducing the very serious risk of > security problems, leading to, say: > > gcc: dj:yourpassword:1234:567:DJ: invalid argument > > instead of > > gcc: @/etc/passwd: invalid argument If you want to use gcc to read a file, you get a closer likeness to the data with: gcc -E -C -x c /etc/passwd Polluting argument name space seems more worrying. A long option would not create such ambiguities.