Incorrect output for complex gcc commands

[coderkd10]

when I enter the following command (a complex gcc compilation command) into explainshell it cause it to behave very weirdly and it generate very bad (partially wrong) explanation.

command : gcc -xc++-header -I"../t4/thirdparty/md5" -I"../../PDFViewer/RMSDK/xml/uft/public" a.c

url : https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=gcc+-xc%2B%2B-header+-I%22..%2Ft4%2Fthirdparty%2Fmd5%22+-I%22..%2F..%2FPDFViewer%2FRMSDK%2Fxml%2Fuft%2Fpublic%22+a.c

I will try and look into the source and try to analyse its cause and submit a pull request if I am able to fix it.

[stoivo]

PR is very welcome

[idank]

Yeah, gcc is a mess. It has a weird man page and compared to other binaries, its command line formatting is complicated that it doesn't bode well with explainshell trying to be as general as possible.

[0x6773]

Simple gcc commands are also not working g++ -std=c++17 main.cpp. check explainshell