From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 29 0:43: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCE514C1F for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21940; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:12:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <37280AC6.12FA0AF0@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:12:37 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark Ovens Subject: RE: Confused Compiler? Cc: FreeBSD-chat Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-Apr-99 Mark Ovens wrote: > I noticed last night that if you don't specify an output filename > (i.e. no ``-o'' option) the default compiler (2.7.1.2?) in 3.1 still > calls the binary ``a.out'', even though it's an ELF file :-/ Its historical.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message