Re: suggestions for getopt*.c in libiberty

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:16

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>The efficiency of getopt is particularly irrelevant - even if
>it made a difference, why do you think the system version is preferable?

   It's probably not, in fact.  GNU getopt allows users to specify options
and arguments in any order, whereas traditional getopt implementations
*require* options first.

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