Re: FW: [sdcc-devel] Release

[Bernhard H. <ber...@be...>]

> So, we have a big mess here
Yes, indeed.

> or there is a special reason for such situation?
No.

> If there is no special reason, I propose:
> - the goal is to have all pragmas lowercase, case sensitive,
>   using underscores (no dashes), not using '='. I propose it,
>   because this is how it is done in gcc cpp.
Yes.

> - yes, I know we can not break the backward compatibility ;-),
>   but here is a solution:
In order not to make the mess even worse, I vote for a real clean up without 
backward compatibility!

>   - sdcc compiler front-end pragmas should be case insensitive, so both
>     uppercase (for backward compatibility) and lowercase pragmas will
>     be accepted. "CALLEE-SAVES" will remain (for backward compatibility),
>     but a new pragma "callee_saves" will be defined with the same
>     functionality.
>   - sdcc compiler z80 target pragmas: "bank=" and "portmode=" will remain
>     for backward compatibility, new "bank" and "portmode" pragmas will be
>     defined.
Yes, but without backward compatibility.

> The documentation should be updated accordingly: only lower case pragmas,
> no "-" or "=".
Yes.

> All other variants are deprecated an will be obsolete in the future.
Well, you know my opinion ;-)

Bernhard