Re: Option ordering - ReadList.com

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Option ordering
\ Ian Lance Taylor (30 May 2007)
. \ Joe Buck (30 May 2007)
. . \ Ian Lance Taylor (30 May 2007)
. . . \ Manuel López-Ibáńez (31 May 2007)
. . \ Diego Novillo (31 May 2007)
. . . \ Jakub Jelinek (31 May 2007)
. . . . \ Manuel López-Ibáńez (31 May 2007)
. \ Sergei Organov (31 May 2007)
. . \ Ian Lance Taylor (31 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Option ordering
Group:	Gcc
From:	Ian Lance Taylor
Date:	31 May 2007

Sergei Organov <osv> writes:

> I like the idea. I'd also suggest that group options won't do anything
> else but affecting [default values of] simple options. It means that one
> will be able to substitute a set of simple options for a "group option"
> without change in behavior (for example, this is not currently the case
> for -O,-O1,-O2 options).

That is a separate idea, and should be considered separately.

I don't personally think it would be all that useful. We would simply
wind up with more options like -fexpensive-optimizations: basically
random and changing behaviour from release to release.

Ian