[llvm] r208929 - Make the -L option for SaveTempLabels not be static. No functional change.

Kevin Enderby enderby at apple.com
Tue May 20 15:55:37 PDT 2014


On May 20, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Make the -L option for SaveTempLabels not be static. No functional change.
>> 
>> Note: This option name is terrible, we should fix this.
>> 
> 
> The name is taken from the old OS X assembler,

FYI, that was the name in gas(1) which was the old OS X assembler,
as the -L option was a old UNIX assembler option :)  Likely selected
as temporary assembler names stared with ‘L’ and in the very old world
of single letter options it as not a bad name.  But that was before my time.

> but I agree. llvm-mc is
> not even close to being command line compatible with as and the OS X
> assembler seems to be deprecated, so it is probably safe to rename the
> llvm-mc option.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rafael
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