Re: Handling of -specs in cgcc

["Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But won't gcc fail in such case?
>
> It will not fail, as gcc does not see any of it.  But since the defines might
> not match what gcc runs with, you might get interesting effects.
>

Rright, it is not added to the gcc arguments. But this means that if the
build system actually passes -specs= for some reason, gcc would never
see them... On the other hand, have anyone ever seen the -specs option
used in real life?

>> Maybe we should not remove, but replace it
>> with a unique option to specify for which architecture sparse should check?
>
> That's certainly possible, but I would wait for an actual problem showing
> up before fixing anything.  Right now, we can use -specs to get an idea
> what sparse would find for a different arch without actually having a gcc
> around that can cross compile.
>
> Morten
>