Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:39:05 CDT
From: "George Jetson" <pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu>
To: martin AT cosmos2 DOT orie DOT cornell DOT edu
Subject: Re:  gcc environment variables
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

You wrote:
>Is it possible to set the gcc configuration via a data file rather
>than environment variables.  You could place it in the same directory
>as gcc.exe (perhaps calling it GCC.CFG).  GCC.CFG would have all
>the options set using environment variables.  The reason this
>is important is that I often run out of environment space because
>of the number of environment variables gcc and other programs
>define in the autoexec.bat file.  One could be allowed to override
>the gcc.cfg using the environment variable approach.  Does this
>seem reasonable to you?

I think this is a very good idea.  I think cluttering up the environment
is messy and unattractive.

Note that you can always make the environment bigger, so there is not a
technical reason why the environment solution is not workable, but it is
messy.  Also, for those of you who like to count beans, cluttering up
the environment does waste memory...