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From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:39:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Improve compressed debug info support detection
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 07:30:46PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:27:55PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> 
> No, as-option does invoke the assembler. The problem here is that with
> -Wa, the option is only seen by the assembler, not the gcc driver. So it
> will succeed because the assembler supports it, but it will not test
> whether the gcc driver also supports it.
> 

I think in theory another way to fix it is to just use -Wa even for
CFLAGS, assuming the compiler itself doesn't have to do anything with
the option and it's purely an assembler thing. Then you'd just do the as
and ld tests.