From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: File Deleted???
21 Jul 1998 03:33:42 -0700
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To: JSONCRAIG AT aol DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

You've asked gcc to create a file (the -o switch means output to)
c:/c++/file.cpp.  The -mwindows is a linker switch defined in the
specs file.  It should have complained about no input.  gcc will
normally delete an output file when an error happens on input.

---JSONCRAIG AT aol DOT com wrote:
>
> In Bash I did gcc -o c:/c++/file.cpp -mwindows, because I was told
to do it
> that way.  It started compiling, there was some sort of syntax error
in my
> code and the file.cpp got deleted?!?!  Anyone know what happened,
did I do
> something wrong?  Is it a bug?
> 
> Thanks
> Jason
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