Re: [cdt-dev] CDT's handling of compilation switches

[Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig E. Rasmussen wrote:
> > So I am thinking to modify gcc have an option, say --emit-options-xml,
> > to have it create XML (or other easily machine-readable) output that
> > could easily be parsed by the gcc.  The output could be structured so
> > that the switches can be in categories, like the existing compiler
> > switches in the CDT today.  There's a lot that could be done with this,
> > I think. Here's a crude little example of what I'm thinking of:
>
> How would this work (or be used) with compilers other than gcc?

CDT would use the current mechanism as a default when it detected that 
the compiler doesn't support the --emit-options-xml option.

- Corey

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