On 2009-04-27 at 10:27, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > gcc has a new command line switch, "-multi". > > This tells gcc to forward all given input files to a single execution > > of the compiler proper, in a similar way as done for "-combine". > > This is good work, but why not just reuse -combine? What is the > difference btween -multi and -combine?
-combine produces just one assembler file for all input files while -multi produces one assembler file per each input file. Actually, I started out reusing -combine for Ada (with the changed semantics of N output files) until I realized that someday other languages might also become multi-output capable. Oliver
