@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.
These files "magically reappeared" after the conversion from CVS to
Mercurial. The old CVS repository deleted these files but did not
record *when* it deleted these files. The conversion resurrected these
files because they have no history of deletion. These files were
probably deleted before year 1995. The CVS repository begins to record
deletions around 1995.
These files may still appear in older revisions of this Mercurial
repository, when they should already be deleted. There is no way to fix
this, because the CVS repository provides no dates of deletion.
See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29823032
