Via: uk.ac.liverpool.amtp.suna; Fri, 26 Jun 1992 10:43:44 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <pws AT suna DOT amtp DOT liverpool DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: Re: No aout;no error;no warning
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 10:45:09 BST

> Using gcc -O -o work work.cc 
> 
> on a C++ file which contains #include "iostream.h"
>                               #include "complex.h"
>                 and           #include "conio.h"
> 
> the compiler chugs along for awhile, but when finished, has given
> me no "work1" file, no warnings, and no errors.
> 
> What happened?
> 
> Stuart Lichtenthal smlg1015 AT uxa DOT cso DOT uiuc DOT edu

You haven't, by any chance, redirected stderr to stdout (set GO32 = 1m2
or whatever it is)?  In that case the preprocessor will send the error
messages along with the output into some temporary file; because of the
errors that just gets deleted and compilation terminates.

Peter
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