Re: [Tinycc-devel] Implementation of '--' argument

[grischka]

On 18.04.2023 07:41, certanan via Tinycc-devel wrote:
> I couldn't find any specific reasons as to why '--' was replaced by '-run' 
> (other than '-run' being implicitly more coherent than '--'). Since there is a 
> possibility that older scripts still depend on '--', would it be a bad idea to 
> re-implement it for the sake of backward compatibility, and state its 
> deprecated status in documentation?

What about the possibility that the "older" script that you found

   https://github.com/qemacs/qemacs/blob/master/qe.tcc

still exists there unchanged because nobody did even try it with
a more recent version of tcc since then?

Did you check how well it would work at all?

-- gr

> - certanan
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, April 17th, 2023 at 8:18 AM, grischka <grishka@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> > On 17.04.2023 07:59, avih via Tinycc-devel wrote:
> >
> > > What some random script tries or doesn't try to do is irrelevant.
> >
> >
> > In a case however where the script and the tcc to be used with it
> > were written by the same author at the same time, we probably better
> > assume that it actually did work.
> >
> > As it seems the purpose was different though, i.e. the '--' once
> > was used with instant execution to separate tcc args from the
> > program's args.
> >
> > See commit here (from almost exactly 20 years ago) where "--" then
> > was replaced by "-run" as it still exists.
> >
> > https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git/commitdiff/40987541dc683a13cef764aa33f5da21b2660817
> >
> > > tcc should follow the spec and common practices.
> >
> >
> > ... provided that these do make sense in tcc's own context. In cases
> > it better shouldn't.
> >
> > For example, not to support compilation of files such as -c.c is
> > not a problem as long as we assume that such files do not exist.
> >
> > Other than that tcc currently does support these forms with -run:
> > tcc options [files less one] -run last_file arguments
> > and also
> > tcc "-run options" file arguments (for usage with "#!", see ex4.c)
> > and also
> > tcc options files -run @ arguments
> >
> > I'd consider the latter form still rather "unofficial" so we could
> > still replace it by
> >
> > tcc options files -run -- arguments
> >
> > which might (or might not) look better, in some sense.
> >
> > What do people think?
> >
> > -- grischka
> >
> >
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