More H'00 support
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 14:12:00 GMT 2008
Hi Cecilia,
> However, I have observed a strange
> behaviour while using this option. The assembler did not complain
> when '-h-tick-he' is used instead of '-h-tick-hex'. I further
> checked that the assembler accepts the following other incorrect
> options without generating any error message,
> '-h-', '-h-t', '-h-tick-' etc.
Actually this is the expected behaviour. Any long command line option
can be abbreviated to a shorter version, provided that it is
unambiguous. So for example "as --vers" will do the same thing as "as
--version", but "as --ver" will be rejected because it could be
shorthand for either "as --version" or "as --verbose".
Cheers
Nick
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