(j3.2006) One more thing for the C TR

[Malcolm Cohen]

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 06:01 -0700, Bill Long wrote:
> I think that this proposal is out of scope for the TS.  It would be more
> appropriate as a f201x proposal, though I agree with Malcolm that there
> are issues.

Van Snyder wrote:
>The issues seem to be very easy to address.

Apparently not.

>  A compiler that offers
>options to change kind numbers can provide the appropriate header files
>in different subdirectories of where its distribution installer installs
>things.  One can then use command-line options to select which directory
>to search.  The onus is on the developer of the "make" script (or
>whatever one uses) to select command-line options consistently.

This does not seem to help the problem originally posed which was (and I quote)

>I had to trust that the C
>side (actually C++ side) was compiled correctly (with the correct
>command-line options

In fact this would appear to have increased the problems because now there are 
MORE command-line options that need to be done correctly!

The solution to "too many incompatible command line options" is not to add more 
incompatible command line options.

Cheers,
-- 
................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.