Hello, Sorry for bumping it again but I guess it was getting overlooked.
I am very junior with mailing list open source contributions so please feel free to point out if I have inadvertantly done something in an incorrect way. The archive of the original email can be found at https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-September/579232.html and is also appended below. Best regards, Hu Jialun > Enables putting line comments into option files included using '@'. > > Comments begin with a ';' followed by whitespace, and terminates at the > end of the line. Backward compability should be satisfactory since ';' > is a character disallowed in DOS filenames and rarely used in filenames > or options anywhere else as well. > > Related discussion: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2011-02/msg00422.html > --- > libiberty/argv.c | 5 +++++ > libiberty/testsuite/test-expandargv.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/libiberty/argv.c b/libiberty/argv.c > index 48dcd102461..2bc7569b718 100644 > --- a/libiberty/argv.c > +++ b/libiberty/argv.c > @@ -194,6 +194,11 @@ char **buildargv (const char *input) > { > /* Pick off argv[argc] */ > consume_whitespace (&input); > + if (*input == ';') > + { > + for (; *input != '\n' && *input != EOS; ++input); > + continue; > + } > > if ((maxargc == 0) || (argc >= (maxargc - 1))) > { > diff --git a/libiberty/testsuite/test-expandargv.c > b/libiberty/testsuite/test-expandargv.c > index 56c170f9ec6..5640b2b41cf 100644 > --- a/libiberty/testsuite/test-expandargv.c > +++ b/libiberty/testsuite/test-expandargv.c > @@ -142,6 +142,18 @@ const char *test_data[] = { > "b", > 0, > > + /* Test 7 - Check for comments in option file. */ > + "abc\n;def\nxy \\;z \\ ;gh", /* Test 7 data */ > + ARGV0, > + "@test-expandargv-7.lst", > + 0, > + ARGV0, > + "abc", > + "xy", > + ";z", > + " ;gh", > + 0, > + > 0 /* Test done marker, don't remove. */ > }; > > -- > 2.33.0