RTS option parsing
Edward Z. Yang
ezyang at MIT.EDU
Sat Aug 10 02:09:46 CEST 2013
Hi David,
> I was initially thinking of something like getopt_long_only, as per:
> http://linux.die.net/man/3/getopt_long
> however it looks like the portability of that function isn't the greatest,
> and from looking at rts/RtsFlags.c:procRtsOpts(...) it might not be the
> best solution.
That's not necessarily true; we target MingW for Windows compilation,
so if you can make sure it works there getopt_long may be viable. On
the other hand, maintaining backwards compatibility may be tricky.
Some investigation is probably necessary.
Edward
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