On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:04:10PM -0800, Le-Chun Wu wrote: > >> -fplugin=/path/to/plugin.so;arg1=value;arg2=value;... > >> > > I am not sure if it is GCC's responsibility to understand key-value > (or any other types of) arguments to plugins. I think GCC should > simply take a string (which, of course, can be something like > "arg1=value arg2=value") and pass it (unparsed) to the plugin. It is > plugin's job to parse/process the given arguments (whatever way it > likes).
Please let GCC do this, so that argument parsing can be (A) centralized, and (B) standardized. Otherwise the right way to pass arguments will end up different for every plugin. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
