specified</a></li>
<li><a href="#formatting">Controlling other formatting options</a></li>
<li><a href="#misc">Miscellaneous option modifiers</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#response">Response files</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#toplevel">Top-Level Classes and Functions</a>
initial value. (You will get an error at runtime if you don't put them in
the right order.)</li>
-<li><a name="cl::location">The <b><tt>cl::location</tt></b></a> attribute where to
-store the value for a parsed command line option if using external storage. See
-the section on <a href="#storage">Internal vs External Storage</a> for more
+<li><a name="cl::location">The <b><tt>cl::location</tt></b></a> attribute where
+to store the value for a parsed command line option if using external storage.
+See the section on <a href="#storage">Internal vs External Storage</a> for more
information.</li>
<li><a name="cl::aliasopt">The <b><tt>cl::aliasopt</tt></b></a> attribute
You will get a compile time error if you try to use cl::values with a parser
that does not support it.</li>
+<li><a name="cl::multi_val">The <b><tt>cl::multi_val</tt></b></a>
+attribute specifies that this option takes has multiple values
+(example: <tt>-sectalign segname sectname sectvalue</tt>). This
+attribute takes one unsigned argument - the number of values for the
+option. This attribute is valid only on <tt>cl::list</tt> options (and
+will fail with compile error if you try to use it with other option
+types). It is allowed to use all of the usual modifiers on
+multi-valued options (besides <tt>cl::ValueDisallowed</tt>,
+obviously).</li>
+
</ul>
</div>
<li><a name="cl::Sink">The <b><tt>cl::Sink</tt></b></a> modifier is
used to handle unknown options. If there is at least one option with
-<b><tt>cl::Sink</tt></b></a> modifier specified, the parser passes
+<tt>cl::Sink</tt> modifier specified, the parser passes
unrecognized option strings to it as values instead of signaling an
-error. As with <b><tt>cl::CommaSeparated</tt></b></a>, this modifier
+error. As with <tt>cl::CommaSeparated</tt>, this modifier
only makes sense with a <a href="#cl::list">cl::list</a> option.</li>
-
</ul>
<p>So far, these are the only three miscellaneous option modifiers.</p>
</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ <a name="response">Response files</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>Some systems, such as certain variants of Microsoft Windows and
+some older Unices have a relatively low limit on command-line
+length. It is therefore customary to use the so-called 'response
+files' to circumvent this restriction. These files are mentioned on
+the command-line (using the "@file") syntax. The program reads these
+files and inserts the contents into argv, thereby working around the
+command-line length limits. Response files are enabled by an optional
+fourth argument to
+<a href="#cl::ParseEnvironmentOptions"><tt>cl::ParseEnvironmentOptions</tt></a>
+and
+<a href="#cl::ParseCommandLineOptions"><tt>cl::ParseCommandLineOptions</tt></a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection">
<a name="toplevel">Top-Level Classes and Functions</a>
<p>The <tt>cl::ParseCommandLineOptions</tt> function requires two parameters
(<tt>argc</tt> and <tt>argv</tt>), but may also take an optional third parameter
which holds <a href="#description">additional extra text</a> to emit when the
-<tt>--help</tt> option is invoked.</p>
+<tt>--help</tt> option is invoked, and a fourth boolean parameter that enables
+<a href="#response">response files</a>.</p>
</div>
href="#cl::ParseCommandLineOptions"><tt>cl::ParseCommandLineOptions</tt></a>
does.</p>
-<p>It takes three parameters: the name of the program (since <tt>argv</tt> may
+<p>It takes four parameters: the name of the program (since <tt>argv</tt> may
not be available, it can't just look in <tt>argv[0]</tt>), the name of the
-environment variable to examine, and the optional
+environment variable to examine, the optional
<a href="#description">additional extra text</a> to emit when the
-<tt>--help</tt> option is invoked.</p>
+<tt>--help</tt> option is invoked, and the boolean
+switch that controls whether <a href="#response">reponse files</a>
+should be read.</p>
<p><tt>cl::ParseEnvironmentOptions</tt> will break the environment
variable's value up into words and then process them using
default:
<i>// Print an error message if unrecognized character!</i>
- <b>return</b> O.error(": '" + Arg + "' value invalid for file size argument!");
+ <b>return</b> O.error("'" + Arg + "' value invalid for file size argument!");
}
}
}
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