Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion

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From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject	Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion
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John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> writes:
> In <9f1b89ff-cf47-4e01-b137-ba263e9e75f1@googlegroups.com> Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> writes:
>> Different resources advice different commands to compile a file:
>
>> 1) gcc sample.c sample
>
> This tells gcc to compile the files "sample.c" and "sample".

No, it doesn't.  The file name "sample" doesn't have an extension,
so gcc isn't going to assume it's a source file to be compiled.
(Apparently it turns out that it assumes it's a linker script,
which is not what I would have guessed.)

Unless you already know exactly what gcc does with
    gcc sample.c sample
I think it's safe to assume that it's simply incorrect.

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Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-04-21 08:18 -0700
  Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-04-21 08:25 -0700
    Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-04-21 10:56 -0500
      Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-04-22 09:35 +0200
        Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-22 11:15 -0400
          Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-04-23 01:31 +0200
        Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-22 08:43 -0700
          Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-22 18:57 +0100
            Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-22 11:35 -0700
  Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-21 12:01 -0400
  Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-04-21 16:01 +0000
    Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org> - 2015-04-21 13:11 -0400
    Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-21 12:09 -0700
  Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-21 18:25 +0100
    Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-21 12:11 -0700
  Re: Fist steps in compiling, gcc commands confusion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-21 11:16 -0700

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