On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed today that: > > gcc -c -o hw.o hw.c > > removes hw.o if failure occurs during the compilation, but: > > gcc -c -ohw.o hw.c > > does not. > > The reason turns out to be that, in the latter case, we record the name > "-ohw.o" as a temporary file, rather than "hw.o".
This is http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11810 . There was a patch posted here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg00784.html It was reviewed here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-07/msg01432.html Thanks, Andrew Pinski
