| On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> Message written at 01 Dec 1998 10:52:01 +0000
>
> May I atempt to explain about the +- flags? In an e-discussion about
> the proliferation of flags in different versions of Csound some of us
> decided/discussed using +- for build-specific flags so they would not
> confuse the general system.
actually, we were thinking of using the GNU-specific 'long options'
(getopt_long(), which look like --this=that etc.) under Linux to control
linux-specific flags like priority scheduling and the like... It would be
a way for us linuxers not to be in the way of normal flags, while being
able to retain them.
If +- are better (?) supported under windows, linux has adopted
the getopt_long() call and data structure, so it would be better suited.
Nicola
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Nicola Bernardini
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