debian man page for diet

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NAME
       diet - mangle gcc command line arguments

SYNOPSIS
       diet [-v] [-Os] [normal gcc command line]

DESCRIPTION
       diet  is  a  small  wrapper  around gcc.  It will try to look at the command line you specify and try to mangle it so that gcc will compile
       against the diet libc header files and link against the diet libc itself.

       diet tries to be smart for cross compiling.  If the first argument is not gcc but sparc-linux-gcc, diet will guess that you want  to  cross
       compile for sparc and use bin-sparc/dietlibc.a instead of the dietlibc.a for your default architecture.

       The -v option will make diet print the modified gcc command line before executing it.

       When  passed  the -Os option before the gcc argument, diet will mangle the gcc options to include the best known for-size optimization set-
       tings for the platform.

FILES
       ~/.diet/compiler may contain compiler options as you would specify them on the command line, i.e. separated by spaces.  Those will then	be
       used instead of the built-in defaults for diet -Os.

AUTHOR
       Felix von Leitner <felix-dietlibc@fefe.de>

								    April 2001								   diet(1)