Date:	Fri, 2 Dec 1994 10:38:44 +0900
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	terra AT diku DOT dk
Cc:	A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	A useful option prodiuces PC-illegal filenames!!

      From: ANTHONY APPLEYARD <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
      Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 10:54:37 GMT

	Line 1469 etseq of file DJGPP\DOCS\GCC\INVOKE.TEX says (my capitals):-

      name (e.g. @file{FOO.C.RTL} or @file{FOO.C.JUMP}).  Here are the

	Those filenames have 2 dots each and so are illegal on PC's!!!

   (You mean invalid.)  True.  One solution would be to hack the GCC source
   to add a dash instead of a dot.

   -------------------------------------------Morten Welinder, terra AT diku DOT dk

Of course you don't mean that, since the files would become "foo.c_r"
and "foo.c_j".  With "foo.cc" all debugging dumps are "foo.cc_".  A
rather small name space IMHO.  And with "foo.c++" the original source
gets overwritten.  Serious oops, that.  You need to substitute "_" for
"." in the original filenames (maybe better simply drop the dot?)
    --Steve

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