On 07/23/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 20/07/18 12:06, Martin Liška wrote: >> On 07/20/2018 12:58 PM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: >>> Modifiers are context dependent. The architecture implies which >>> modifiers can be applied (and what they mean in detail, so, for example, >>> +fp means enable the default floating point variant for this >>> architecture). Not all modifiers apply to all architectures - +fp is >>> not permitted on ARMv4t, for example. >> >> I see, that said I would really add just the target hook suggested. It will >> help people in bash completions and provide reasonable list in --help output. >> >> More complex approaches are possible, but don't worth in my opinion. >> If you agree, I can clean up the API and improve documentatio? >> >> Martin >> > > I do wonder if it would be helpful for the API to be able to provide a > 'prefix value' for prematching. So that, for example, > > -mcpu=cortex > > would pass 'cortex' as a pre-match and then the compiler could supply > just the valid cpus that start with cortex. or > > -mcpu=cortex-a5+ > > would pass 'cortex-a5+' and the compiler can supply the valid extensions > to that CPU.
Can be definitely beneficial for bash completion. I'll clean up tomorrow the API and then you can implement the target hook. I'm going to do implementation for i386. It's simpler, there is only a list of possible values. Thanks, Martin > > R. >
