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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Chandler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gabor’s patch seems uncontroversial to me and the new behaviour matches many other applications using unix getopt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Could you say why you think it is a mistake?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Do you object to relaxing the mandatory ‘=’ or allowing both single and double – versions or both?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rich<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cfe-commits-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:cfe-commits-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chandler Carruth<br><b>Sent:</b> 11 March 2015 20:16<br><b>To:</b> Renato Golin<br><b>Cc:</b> llvm cfe<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: r231787 - Allow -target= and --target options<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Renato Golin <<a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org" target="_blank">renato.golin@linaro.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div id=":3y4"><p class=MsoNormal>Allow -target= and --target options<br><br>Using clang as a cross-compiler with the 'target' option could be confusing<br>for those inexperienced in the realm of cross compiling.<br><br>This patch would allow the use of all these four variants of the target option:<br>-target <triple><br>--target <triple><br>-target=<triple><br>--target=<triple><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Previously we insisted on using --target= because we wanted that to be the consistent driver syntax for this option. I would prefer to continue to insist on that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think offering choices here is a very serious mistake. This is our driver's flag, and we should have some freedom to specify its syntax.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Could we go back to requiring explicitly '--target='?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>