Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:43:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: -KWII- Not a problem, but confusing, please help?
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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> if you do "gcc -o foo" it makes both foo, the unstubbed COFF file, and
> foo.exe, the stubbed COFF file.  If you do "gcc -o foo.exe" it just
> makes the one stubbed COFF file.

This is, as they say, the plot thickens.  The above is correct for all 
versions of GCC before 2.8.  GCC 2.8 and 2.8.1 produce a stubbed .exe 
file even if you say "-o foo".  2.8.x still produces two copies of the 
file: foo and foo.exe, but both have the stub prepended.  "-o foo.exe" 
produces only foo.exe, like before.