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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Compiling in 2.8.1 vs. 2.7.2.1 - two minor problems
Cc: Jerzy Witkowski <Jerzy DOT Witkowski AT ii DOT uni DOT wroc DOT pl>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 17:55:16 -0700
Message-ID: <19980602005455.AAA11858@ppp124.cartsys.com>
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At 08:04  6/1/1998 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Fri, 29 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> >Second, in 2.7.2.1, after compilation with a command `gcc a.c -o
>> >a' there were two files left: `a' and `a.exe' (image and stubified
>> >image, both rather big, second slightly bigger).  Now these two
>> >files are identical (both are stubified).  Is it intended
>> >behaviour or simple side effect?
>> 
>> That also would seem to be a bug.
>
>Why is this a bug?  AFAIK, by default "gcc -o a" makes both a and a.exe.

True, but `a' is now a stubified COFF. Apparently it is documented, so it's
not really a bug after all. I suppose people who want the COFF file will
have to resort to `exe2coff' now.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com