[m-rev.] for review: proposed reclassification of options

[Zoltan Somogyi]

The first attached file is an extract from the current options.m.
The second is that same file with additions outlining the changes
I am proposing to make. The third is the diff between them.

I am proposing some new option categories and subcategories,
which I hope the attached file defines adequately. I am also
proposing to reclassify many options, some into the new
categories, some into existing ones, and in two cases, I am proposing
that what are now warnings should become errors, which cannot be
switched off by options (so the options can be deleted).

I am posting this proposal in this form, because a fully implemented
proposal would also include moving the affected option's help text,
which would be unhelpful clutter in the diff.

For review by everyone, mostly because I am not sure about the
intended limitations on the use of some options. Specifically,
I am not clear about which otherwise-internal-use-only options
are actually expected to be used by programmers when doing
cross-compilation. I am therefore also not sure whether it would
be worth creating a new option category, with associated new section
in the help text (and the user guide) specifically for such options.

In the absence of a review, or a promise of one, in the next 24 hours,
I will assume that noone has any objections to the proposal, and
will then construct and commit the full version.

Zoltan.
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