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Subject: Re: Nasty 4.3 change to cc(1)
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Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 11:48:00 EDT
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] "cc -o foo -c blah.c" now creates foo, instead of "blah.o"

HURRAH!  Justification?  I have source I want to conditionally-compile,
and I don't want to play games in my Makefile:
	.c.o:  ; $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $<
	.c.do: ; $(CC) -DDEBUG $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<

The old way "-o is ignored if -c is specified" is inconsistent; the new
way "-o specifies the output file name" is reasonable, sensible, and
orthogonal.

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