Commandline compatibility with Clang?

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 13:33:36 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
wrote:
> Hello. I downloaded ldc expecting that it will have relative 
> Commandline compatibility with Clang, especially that the -o 
> option will work just like in Clang/GCC. But neither the ldc2 
> nor ldmd2 provides the -o option but goes -of= like DMD. Can I 
> open an issue requesting this or is there a particular reason 
> that the syntax deviates?
>
> Thanks.

Hi Shriramana!

There are 2 reasons for the naming of command line options. 
First, ldc predates Clang. Second, ldc links against LLVM and 
inherits all the command line options which are also not 
compatible with Clang.

I think about introducing a new ldc driver and sanitizing the 
command line options. But many tools (e.g. dub) depends on the 
current options ldc2 provides. This will not change.

Regards,
Kai