On Aug 15 01:01, Peter Rosin wrote: > Den 2011-08-14 13:20 skrev Corinna Vinschen: > > On Aug 13 18:20, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> Den 2011-08-13 13:28 skrev Corinna Vinschen: > >>> here's a minor nit, but that bugs me for a while now. > >>> > >>> $ cc hello.c > >>> $ ./a.out > >>> bash: ./a.out: No such file or directory > >>> > >>> I would like to see that GCC for Cygwin creates the output file > >>> "a.out.exe", so the result is the same on Unix/Linux and Cygwin: > >> > >> It's "a.exe" for cygwin native. > > > > I know. That was my point. On other systems it's called a.out, on > > Cygwin it's called a.exe. So, if you try to learn C using the good old > > K&R book from 1983, you're asked to compile hello.c and then call a.out. > > Doesn't work on Cygwin for obvious reasons. Why on earth didn't the GCC > > folks decide to name the output file a.out.exe, so you can run "hello, > > world" by running a.out as well? > > Oops, sorry for the noise. Here I was thinking you had suffered from a brain > fart or something.
I did. The K&R book has been published in 1978, not 1983. That was the publishing date of the german translation which I purchased in a feeble moment way back when. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat