-an and help page (Was: Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Episode 4. Addressing and it's limits Part Two)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 29.02.2012 00:31, schrieb Tomas Hajny:

>> To let Mark (and Sven) know - I tried to add support for this to the
>> compiler but I couldn't make it to work for OPT. The approach is OK
>> in general (apart from the limitation that the compiler may also be
>> compiled without Makefiles and potential use of whatever options
>> wouldn't be visible in that case, but that scenario is probably not
>> important). However, our Makefiles process these variables in very
>> complex way and the result is that OPT is always empty during the
>> compiler compilation (probably due to line 360 in compiler/Makefile).
>> I thought that LOCALOPT might be used instead (see line 355) but that
>> didn't work either. See the attachment (it's the stage when I wanted
>> to try printing LOCALOPT too). Even if I use the original sample
>> program from Sven and rename it to pp.pas and replace the compiler
>> source file with it (and fix the warnings which are treated as errors
>> due to -Sew added by the Makefile ;-) ), I only get CROSSOPT printed
>> and OPT showed as empty.
>>
>> So I ended up by only adding the note to the help page regarding -an
>> dependency on -dEXTDEBUG...
> 
> Well... thanks for trying anyways ;)

Definitely, and thanks for tweaking the help text :-)

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