Re: [bug #34752] compiling with clang gives warnings about unsupported options

[Jean-Charles BERTIN]

Ok, let's stop the flamewar and forget about the quote stuff. Can we
re-focus on the main goal of the patch that is to detect if clang
compiler is in use and remove -shared-libgcc option if it the case.

What do you think of that? Am I wrong with the way I implement it?

Regards.

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 08:06 -0500, Robert Slover wrote:
> I had declined to reply to this, since the response seemed a bit hostile for 
> what was only a benign suggestion. However, since this is specifically being 
> discussed, here are the general reasons I suggested the approach that I did:
> 
> 1) I most often encounter this sort of issue in code that isn't a string of 
> English text containing a contraction. "Plain good english" will not suffice 
> to prevent a regular expression or embedded quote in a sed or awk expression 
> from tripping up Emacs.
> 2) In the products I work on, user-visible messages will show up in 
> documentation, screenshots, and other places. There is always resistance to 
> changing message output based on this reason alone. My convenience, as one of 
> the few Emacs users, will generally not be considered a sufficient 
> justification for a change. Unless I visit the code frequently I will 
> generally remove my little "martian style comment" myself before submitting 
> such code for review, which is the lowest-impact method of dealing with the 
> issue. 
> 3) In some of our older code, the original English format strings are used as 
> keys in message translation for internationalization purposes. Changing them 
> has significant overhead associated with it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> --Robert
> 
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 4:19, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 28 Feb 2013, at 10:08, Jean-Charles BERTIN wrote:
> > 
> >> What is the best way of correcting this: write plain good english or add
> >> a martian style comment? You decide.
> > 
> > Stylistically, the best english output here is to use the contraction.  In 
> > english, contractions should be used except where there is specific reason 
> > not to.
> > 
> > ie, "it's" is to be preferred over "it is", since the latter is read as 
> > emphasising "is".  This unusual emphasis breaks the flow of reading as it 
> > prompts the reader to look for the reason for the emphasis; which is good 
> > if there is a reason, but poor if there isn't.
> > 

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