Re: [Tinycc-devel] Implementation of '--' argument

[Herman ten Brugge]

On 4/16/23 20:10, certanan wrote:
> >From experience, when a program invoked by a shell sees the '--' flag, it 
> stops looking for options.
>
> $ grep -V            // print grep version
> grep (GNU grep) 3.8
> ...
>
> $ grep -- -V         // match for '-V'
> [waiting for stdin where matching for '-V' will occur]
>
> If I'm not mistaken, tcc expects only file-names and options as arguments (if 
> no file-names are provided, it reads code from stdin). Hence after '--' it 
> would treat all arguments as file-names or resort to reading code from stdin if 
> none are provided.
>
> - certanan
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Sunday, April 16th, 2023 at 5:46 PM, grischka <grishka@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> > On 15.04.2023 22:38, certanan via Tinycc-devel wrote:
> >
> > >  From what it seems to me, even Bellard's QEmacs seems to be relying on this, 
> > > rather, standard feature since at least 19 years ago, as referenced in its 
> > > official GitHub repository.
> > > Am I missing something cardinal, or is there, indeed, no valid reason for this 
> > > seemingly not being implemented in tcc? Should the former be the case, I would 
> > > appreciate if someone informed me of it. Otherwise, I have a patch on standby, 
> > > ready to push the feature to mob.
> >
> > Sorry, what this "the feature"? Mind do add a little more information
> > what you're talking about, how it's supposed to be used, examples... ?
I tried: gcc -- a.c
and got:
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '--'

This is with prerelease of gcc 13.
So gcc does not support this. Why would this be needed for tcc?

    Herman