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Re: non coherent options, switches and descriptions
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>, "neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk" <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, "pkoning at equallogic dot com" <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sources dot redhat dot com" <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:11:38 -0800
- Subject: Re: non coherent options, switches and descriptions
--On Wednesday, January 16, 2002 07:23:08 AM -0800 mike stump
<mrs@windriver.com> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:54:06 +0000
>> Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>> From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
>
>> The plan was to drop -V entirely.
>
> Having flags that never work, and are designed to not be able to ever
> work, isn't useful, for this reason, I support this decision.
Yes.
In fact, I hereby pre-approve removal of -V in concept, considering it
a bug-fix, on the current mainline. I will review a patch to do this
if someone submits it.
If people feel strongly that we should not do this, please let me
know. We will then probably need to inquire with the SC.
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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