From: Louis Marascio <lmarasci@stevens-tech.edu>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Environment variable to pass in options?
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 17:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.971207205106.lmarasci@stevens-tech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28760.881545675@hurl.cygnus.com>
>There's certainly a chance :-)
>
>Cygnus has had such a feature in our compilers for a while to satisfy
>some customer needs.
>
>That change was submitted to gcc2 and rejected. There's some interesting
>issues that need to be resolved before we could integrate our patch.
>
>THe most important issue would be bug reports.
>
>We already have a tough time getting all the information we need to
>reproduce & fix problems. Adding an environment variable of this
>nature just makes things harder since someone could put options in
>the environment variable, then forgot to tell us about them when
>they report a bug.
>
>I believe this was the primary objection to including such an option
>in gcc2.
Great, thanks for the information.. Hopefully it'll pop up sometime in the near
future :)
- - - - -
Louis R. Marascio A.K.A Louis Armistead and Jim McCraken
Email: lmarasci@stevens-tech.edu "We have plenty of psychological abuse
ICQ: 4270107 in stock" -- Ripped from jsm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-07 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-07 13:35 Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 15:26 ` Weiwen Liu
1997-12-07 15:56 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 16:45 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-07 17:32 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 17:45 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-07 17:50 ` Louis Marascio [this message]
1997-12-07 19:12 ` Robert Lipe
1997-12-07 19:22 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 20:11 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-07 20:17 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 20:24 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-07 20:32 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 21:22 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-08 14:35 ` Richard Henderson
1997-12-07 20:32 ` Mark Mitchell
1997-12-07 20:32 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-07 21:02 ` Weiwen Liu
1997-12-07 21:07 ` Louis Marascio
1997-12-08 6:48 meissner
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