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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Understandability
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David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
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> "Pipe" has a formal and an informal meaning. I intended it formally when
> I made that statement. I doubt that gcc uses formal pipes - but it surely
> pipes in the informal sense.

Why do you doubt it?  gcc doesn't use "formal" pipes by default, but it
has a "-pipe" option that does exactly that:

    '-pipe'
         Use pipes rather than temporary files for communication between
         the various stages of compilation.  This fails to work on some
         systems where the assembler is unable to read from a pipe; but
         the GNU assembler has no trouble.

I'm pretty sure that's already been mentioned in this thread.

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