From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: the gcc -o option
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:31:01 +0200
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Ghins Mathai wrote:
> 
> The gcc -o option overwrites a file by default. Is there anyway by which
> I can prevent this ??

No, you can't prevent the overwriting.

But why would you want to?  What would you like GCC to do instead?