J. Caleb Wherry

The page you linked to seems to be a fairly out of date man page for `ar`. From http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ar.1.html: > @file > Read command-line options from file. The options read...

In fact, the entire gcc toolchain accepts that as an argument now. On my system (Debian Wheezy 64-bit with binutils-2.21.90), searching through all the man pages yields this list that...

And just to add, your suggestions of `-@, or even better --config-file=` go against the main point of this new CLI option. The point is to have the CLI options...