From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21391 invoked by alias); 1 Jun 2009 21:22:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 21381 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jun 2009 21:22:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.33.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:22:34 +0000 Received: from wpaz5.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz5.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.69]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n51LMURT006288 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:22:31 +0100 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wagm33.prod.google.com [10.114.214.33]) by wpaz5.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n51LLxbZ006966 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:22:29 -0700 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m33so246767wag.14 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.153.2 with SMTP id a2mr5111883wae.221.1243891348596; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain.google.com (adsl-71-133-8-30.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.133.8.30]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m30sm6072783wag.18.2009.06.01.14.22.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:22:28 -0700 (PDT) To: nickc@redhat.com Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: gcc --help for options which are not warnings or optimizations From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 Nick, how is gcc --help supposed to work for options which are neither warnings nor optimizations? For example, -fstack-protector. Is there a --help option which will display it? Ian