Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:09:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.02 Beta 981027
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On 7 Nov 1998, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> : I think this is a side-effect of the feature in the latest Binutils
> : port, whereby "gcc -o foo" produces `foo' that is a stubified executable.
> 
> Hmm. Are you saying "gcc -o foo" produces foo that can be run
> directly?

It can be run directly, but not from COMMMAND.COM, since it only looks
for files with .com, .exe and .bat extensions.  But Bash (and all
other DJGPP programs, like Make) will happily run it.

> Does it produce a foo.exe file too?

Yes, it produces 2 identical files: foo and foo.exe.