[Pnet-developers] command line compatibility for tools

[Peter \"Firefly\" Lund]

There are two kinds of compatibility for the tool commands, one is
compatibility with Microsoft and Mono, the other is compatibility with
gcc.

If/when the C compiler becomes good enough, its gcc command line
compatibility will come in very handy.

For now, though, wouldn't the Microsoft/Mono compatibility be more
important, at least for cscc in C# mode?

If it is even mentioned anywhere that cscc takes the same command lines as
Microsoft/Mono then I have clearly failed to spot it.  I only discovered
it by accident because I typed cscc /help while I was testing my code with
mcs and cscc!

The man page patch I put in the bug tracker (a fix for .ll +8) rephrases
the text at the top of the cscc.1 man page to at least mention that
compatibility but in my mind it doesn't go far enough yet.

In my mind, the /xxx style options should be documented first and most
prominently - the -xxx style should be moved to something like
cscc-gcc(1).  Perhaps the cscc program should even refuse to accept them
for fewest possible interoperability problems with people's build
scripts...

(cscc-gcc would then only accept -xxx style options, of course)

-Peter