gcc 4.8.1 made it to Debian Sid

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:40:31PM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 07/19/2013 09:05 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Not really, there are still some dmd options that dmd-script
> > supports, but gdmd.d doesn't yet.
> 
> On that note, is there a reason not to use std.getopt for the option
> parsing?  Perhaps that it doesn't support single-hyphen option flags
> of more than one character, such as dmd uses?

The main reason is that dmd command-line syntax is somewhat incompatible
with std.getopt. (And also that std.getopt has some quirks w.r.t. to
"usual" Posix-style command-line arguments, but then again, dmd itself
is rather quirky so that's moot.) The biggest problem is multi-character
flags that take arguments without an intervening space, like
-ofprogram.exe, which std.getopt simply can't handle.


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