[$] Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

GCC has a lot of command-lineoptions-so many, in fact, that its build process does a fair amount ofprocessing using AWK to generate theoption-parsing code for the compiler. But some find the AWK code to bedifficult to work with. A recent post to the GCC mailing list proposes replacing AWK withPython in the hopes of more maintainable option-parsing generation in thefuture.