Hi Aaron,

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Aaron Ballman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Alp Toker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The input really is the MSC full version so -fmsc-full-version is the
>> sensible name. Let's not invent new terminology like "extended version"
>> here.
>
> There are zero options with "full" in their name. There are two-ish
> options with "extended" in their name (fextended-identifiers and
> fno-extended-identifiers), but they don't really qualify as examples
> for this discussion. So both of these choices would qualify as
> "inventing new terminology."
>
> The goal is to discuss what qualifies as a "sensible" name, and I have
> some (relatively weak, but valid) objections to using "full" because
> it implies you are required to specify the full version information
> when that isn't the case.

I think Alp is refering to _MSC_FULL_VER from here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b0084kay.aspx

That said, I'm not sure this option is a perfect representation of that symbol.

I don't like "extended version" either, so I'm going out on a limb:
-fmsc-version-string?

- Kim
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