[cfe-dev] RFC: Clang driver redesign

[Miles Bader]

Jens Ayton <mailing-lists.jens at ayton.se> writes:
>> Clang's gcc-compatible options (and extensions) are one of its best
>> features, from a user point of view.  All one's tweaking worked out
>> (sometimes painfully) for gcc pretty much just magically works with
>> clang!  This is really incredibly refreshing, and makes clang look
>> good ("wow, they actually thought about the users!").
>
> The flipside is that it is impossible to even consider a situation
> where getting things to work doesn’t involve painful
> tweaking. Calling this “thinking about the users” smacks of
> Stockholm syndrome.

I'm not sure what that answer's supposed to mean...

There is nothing gcc-specific about "painful tweaking", and it has
nothing to do with the syntax used for compiler options (so changing
clang's option syntax would not make things any better).

-Miles

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