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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: other/5718: Inconsistent and backwards incompatible handling of '-o' switch.
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The following reply was made to PR other/5718; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	osv@javad.ru, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: other/5718: Inconsistent and backwards incompatible handling of '-o' switch.
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:36:28 -0800

 On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:17:33PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
 > Zack / Nathan,
 > 
 > I'd appreciate it if you would have a careful look at the attached patch,
 > which I hope fixes this PR.  It's an attempt to fix the issue of "MD
 > -E -o file" specificying the preprocessed output file, but "MD -c -o
 > file" specifying the output object file.  This is what 2.95 appears to
 > have done.
 
 This seems to be the right thing, or at least a step in the right
 direction.
 
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