@dram reported a build failure in FreeBSD at
https://github.com/davidgiven/ack/issues/1#issuecomment-273668299
Linux manual for getopt(3) says:
> If the first character of optstring is '-', then each nonoption
> argv-element is handled as if it were the argument of an option with
> character code 1....
>
> The use of '+' and '-' in optstring is a GNU extension.
GNU/Linux and OpenBSD handle '-' in this special way, but FreeBSD
seems not to. If '-' is not special, then em_ego can't find its input
file, so the build must fail. This commit stops using '-' in both
em_b and em_ego, but doesn't change mcg.
Also fix em_ego -O3 to not act like -O4.
same base name and generate multiple files based on it, we can't really use
mkstemp() for every temporary file. Instead, use mkstemp() once on a
placeholder, then generate temporary names based on this. (And delete the
placeholder once we've finished.)
and generate invalid calls to the optimisers.
Previously ego would generate a temporary file template that looked like
/tmp/ego.A.BB.XXXXXX, call mktemp() on it to randomise the XXXXXX, and then
replace A and BB with data.
However, it used strrchr to find the A and B. Which would fine, except when
mktemp produced an A or a B in the randomised part...
This code was written on 4 March 1991. I was 16.
This needed lots of refactoring to ego --- not all platforms have ego descr
files, and ego will just crash if you invoke it without one. I think originally
it was never intended that these platforms would be used at -O2 or above.
Plats now only specify the ego descr file if they have one.