Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 09:38:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Frederick W. Reimer" <fwreimer AT crl DOT com>
Subject: Re: djgpp 1.12 no enough memory
To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc: dliu AT faraday-gw DOT njit DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Tue, 16 Aug 1994, Bob Babcock wrote:

> There were reports a while back that if you redirected stderr, errors
> messages from cpp got fed to the compiler instead of being displayed.  I've
> never seen this happen, but apparently the messages you eventually get are
> quite confusing.
> 

The only way I can see this happening is if you use the compiler in a 
pipe mode, piping the contents of some file to the compiler.  If this is 
done, and stderr is redirected to stdin, then the compiler would get the 
stderr output as input to the compiler.  I don't think many people use it 
in this way though!  This should not happen if you redirected stderr to 
some other file, and not to where stdin is redirected to(from).  
Obviously, it's a case where the person who did this didn't really 
understand what they were trying to do, or at least what was really 
happening! (no offense, whoever it was).


Fred Reimer

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