From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Louis Marascio To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Environment variable to pass in options? Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 17:50:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <28760.881545675@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00427.html >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