On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:27:12AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > [ re: @file ]
> Without getting into whether it's a good idea to overcome OS > limitations in this way, I do think that response files are a useful > feature even on Unix systems. But on Unix systems I think we need to > at least consider the possibility of real source file names starting > with '@'. The patch as it stands will have a rather perplexing effect > if such a file is compiled. Maybe that's OK. Users are unlikely to name files in that way, but if for some reason they want to, they can just write gcc -c ./@foop.cpp and of course the same goes for files with names that begin with '-'. So I don't think this is much of an argument.
