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Subject: .OBJ vs .O (was re:RHIDE and DJGPP)
Date: 13 Aug 96 21:54:31 +0200
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In article <199608131727 DOT VAA07673 AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>, "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net> writes:
>> From: Joshua Cannon Butcher <lchandar AT mindspring DOT com>
> 
>> 7)	And for everyone in General, why do you have to stray away from
>> industry standards?  Calling object files .O files instead of .OBJ,
>> calling C++ files .CC instead of .CPP, and .a instead of .LIB for
>> library.  HELLO!  Its not copyright infringement to use the same
>> extensions, and it would make the transition for existing C and C++
>> users to use.  This is quite frankly scaring me, and almost makes me
>> want to pay the $500 for Borland C++ 5.0 so I can have the "standard" of
>> the computer programming industry.
> 
> Why do you call those silly dos extensions "industry standard"?
> GCC is primarily Unix compiler and it was ported to dos. All Unices
> have .o, .cc, .a etc as convensional suffixes. I think they are older than
> dos. (Probably .obj was used in other os'es, like CP/M, but I don't know)
> 
> Well, you can call your files as you want. See how:
> 	ar q mylib.lib files...
> 	gcc myprog.cpp mylib.lib
> 
> You can even do 'ren ar.exe lib.exe'
> 

This argument over "standard" DOS names vs. Unix is silly in my opinion, so I
won't join in. Except to say that if .o, .a and .cc scare you, you probably
should spend $500 and feel secure. Nuff said.

I remember someone saying that if you say "gcc myprog.o mylib.a" the linker
doesn't exclude routines in 'mylib' that aren't used. To do this one must use
the "-l" option. (eg. "gcc myprog.o -lmy" to link libmy.a).

Adios
Mark Wodrich.