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Re: More H'00 support
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Cecilia Rodrigues <Cecilia dot Rodrigues at kpitcummins dot com>
- Cc: dj at redhat dot com, binutils at sourceware dot org, Prafulla Thakare <Prafulla dot Thakare at kpitcummins dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:10:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: More H'00 support
- References: <82C3BC9106BCE149B63464D79D0A22FD06BBC19C@sohm.kpit.com>
Hi Cecilia,
However, I have observed a strange
behaviour while using this option. The assembler did not complain
when '-h-tick-he' is used instead of '-h-tick-hex'. I further
checked that the assembler accepts the following other incorrect
options without generating any error message,
'-h-', '-h-t', '-h-tick-' etc.
Actually this is the expected behaviour. Any long command line option
can be abbreviated to a shorter version, provided that it is
unambiguous. So for example "as --vers" will do the same thing as "as
--version", but "as --ver" will be rejected because it could be
shorthand for either "as --version" or "as --verbose".
Cheers
Nick