Gcc drive and -T option

Gcc drive and -T option

[7400]

I would like to know the opinion about following situation related with gcc driver.

- I have a directory under which there are 2 c files say  - 1.c and 2.c
- I compile these file using gcc -o test.exe *.c -Tscript.ld
- This script.ld uses 1.o and 2.o

Since 1.o and 2.o are NOT created in the cwd the link fails
I'm aware that driver chooses $TMPDIR to create temporary file and deletes them when linking is done
Temporary files are never created in the current directory Also when temporary files are created their names are
different than that of the .c files .    No doubt the linking will fail in the case the above as specified object files are not found in current directory  Since gcc
drive is not aware of what obj files are  specified in the linker script ( and why it should be ? ) it will try to pass the object files in  $(TMPDIR)/temporary files with 
generated names to linker (-v option shows the temporary files used )

#1 Shouldn't gcc  create .o files in cwd when -T is used for compiling ?
Can this be called as bug ? or new valid feature request ?

Here are some other possible solutions to deal with above situation

#2 or use --save-temps on command line
#3 or use gcc -c *.c  and then link separately since -c will always tell assembler to generate the object file in  current directory with help of -o option

Is there any other better way ?

I would like to know the comments on the #1

Thanks a in advance
-U7400







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