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Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)
On Aug 15 01:01, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Den 2011-08-14 13:20 skrev Corinna Vinschen:
> > On Aug 13 18:20, Peter Rosin wrote:
> >> Den 2011-08-13 13:28 skrev Corinna Vinschen:
> >>> here's a minor nit, but that bugs me for a while now.
> >>>
> >>> $ cc hello.c
> >>> $ ./a.out
> >>> bash: ./a.out: No such file or directory
> >>>
> >>> I would like to see that GCC for Cygwin creates the output file
> >>> "a.out.exe", so the result is the same on Unix/Linux and Cygwin:
> >>
> >> It's "a.exe" for cygwin native.
> >
> > I know. That was my point. On other systems it's called a.out, on
> > Cygwin it's called a.exe. So, if you try to learn C using the good old
> > K&R book from 1983, you're asked to compile hello.c and then call a.out.
> > Doesn't work on Cygwin for obvious reasons. Why on earth didn't the GCC
> > folks decide to name the output file a.out.exe, so you can run "hello,
> > world" by running a.out as well?
>
> Oops, sorry for the noise. Here I was thinking you had suffered from a brain
> fart or something.
I did. The K&R book has been published in 1978, not 1983. That was
the publishing date of the german translation which I purchased in a
feeble moment way back when.
Corinna
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