Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:37:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Christian Henz <chrhenz AT uni-paderborn DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Sourcefile corrupted !
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Christian Henz wrote:

> Yesterday I wrote a small prog and
> compiled it using the -s switch. I have used it before and never had any
> problems but yesterday I had to realize that my source-file was messed up.
> It wasn`t readable anymore, about 44K large while the .o file was only 4K
> large.

This usually happens when you by mistake type something like this:

		gcc -o foo.c foo.c bar.c ...

The "-o foo.c" part is the problem: it nukes the source file, overwriting 
it with the executable.