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PATCH: Add --report-line-number-with-parentheses to linker

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Sat Jul 25 02:13:00 GMT 2009 
On Friday 24 July 2009 19:20:42 H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > "H.J. Lu" writes:
> >> Some IDE expects line number in linker messages surrounded by
> >> parentheses.
> >
> > How about having people who use that IDE simply replace the linker with
> > a shell script which invokes the real ld and runs sed on the output?
>
> It is slow and sed may not be available on that platform.

sed's speed is irrelevant compared to the linking speed.  calling it "slow" in 
this context is ridiculous.

rather than add some long winded format-specific option, why dont you make it 
a flexible argument.  --line-number-format="(#)" and the # gets replaced with 
the actual line number.
-mike
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