Bug#4429: gcc argument validation could be better

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

Bruce Perens writes:
> Package: gcc
> Version: 2.7.2.1-1
> 
> > echo > foo.c
> > gcc -Aa foo.c
> *Initialization*:1: missing token-sequence in `#assert'
> 
> I guess this is worth forwarding to the upstream maintainer.
> 
> GCC could validate the format of the -A flag better. The message
> currently generated by a badly-formatted argument is less than
> informative.

Well, it's kind of hard to validate the free-form argument to the -A
flag, since any error will look the same as any other, obscure, syntax
error.  I'll pass you suggestion along anyway, though.

David
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