Joerg Schilling wrote: > Chris Quenelle <Chris.Quenelle at Sun.COM> wrote: > >> It's likely that Sun Studio Next will have -xstrconst on by default. >> It's likely that the C compiler will transition to using the same >> syntax as the C++ compiler uses today. (-features=[no%]conststrings) >> Hopefully we will remember the -m64 lesson, and silently accept >> both options for at least one FCS release. This change has already > > -m64 needs much longer support if you like to allow people to write portable > (across versions) build systems. > > It is different with Sun internal code that does not need to be portable at > all.
I wasn't clear about what the -m64 lesson was. In Sun Studio 12 we wanted to switch our syntax from -xarch=v9 to -m64. We started warning about the old syntax right away, and that meant there was combination of options that would work without warnings on both Sun Studio 11 and Sun Studio 12. So it seems like "accept new and old with no warnings for one release" is a good policy when we want to transition option syntax. --chris
