Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,gnu.gcc.help
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:22:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Ivo Janssen <ivo AT ricardis DOT tudelft DOT nl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Documentation on the "specs" file
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Ivo Janssen wrote:
> 
> > Anyone knows how to do this, or where to find documentation on the
> > "specs" file? It's not in the gcc-info files.
> 
> The syntax of `specs' is not documented in any external docs I know
> of.  You will have to download the gcc sources (v2gnu/gcc2721s.zip)
> and look inside gcc.c.  A large comment there explains all the details
> of the syntax.

Thanks for everyone who responded. I can add that this comment is
almost a formal specification of the spec-language, and therefore
unreadable. But with the examples (read: default specs for several
options, about 100 lines below) I managed to get there.

Ivo

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