Re: my favorite bug :-)

[Masamichi HOSODA]

>>> There is a big difference: If you compile a .c file, the .o files
>>> stays by default; the compiler doesn't remove it.
>> 
>> Uh, wrong?
>> 
>> cd /tmp;echo "main(){return 0;}" >gega.c;gcc -o gega gega.c;ls gega*
>> gega  gega.c
> 
> I've meant using option `-c' of the compiler.  BTW, if you specify
> option `-o', does gcc create an intermediate file `gega.o' that
> overwrites another file `gega.o' in the compilation directory?

If I understand correctly,
in this case, gcc does not use gega.o.
gcc uses /tmp/ccXXXXXX.o etc.
(XXXXXX is replaced by random unique charactor by mkstemp.)
gcc removes it.