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PATCH: Fix cxxfilt.c

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Nov 24 21:53:00 GMT 2003 
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:43:22PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:58:23PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > cxxfilt is supposed to accept -h and -v. But they aren't allowed. This
> > > > patch fixes it.
> > > 
> > > Why do you say that c++filt is supposed to accept -h and -v?  They're
> > > not in the usage message.  They're not in the documentation.  --help
> > > and --version are listed in both places, but -h and -v are listed in
> > > neither.
> > 
> > Then, remove the code which handles -v and -h.
> 
> There is no such code.  If you try to use -v or -h, you will get an
> `invalid option' error.
> 
> You may be confused by the fact that cxxfilt.c happens to represent
> the long option --help using the code 'h', and similarly represents
> --version using the code 'v'.  There is nothing wrong with that,
> though.
> 

You are right.


H.J.
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