I wonder whether Ritchie and Kernigan are still around to pontificate over that... Jürgen Weiß wrote: > > Am Fre, 2002-09-27 um 16.33 schrieb Robert Fausey: > > Does anyone know the reason why the default executable name for gcc is > > a.out? I did a search and all I could find was for historical reasons, is > > there more documentaion about this. > > > > > > Rob Fausey. > > > > > > Thompson's PDP-7 assembler outdid even DEC's in simplicity; it evaluated > expressions and emitted the corresponding bits. There were no libraries, > no loader or link editor: the entire source of a program was presented > to the assembler, and the output filewith a fixed namethat emerged was > directly executable. (This name, a.out, explains a bit of Unix > etymology; it is the output of the assembler. Even after the system > gained a linker and a means of specifying another name explicitly, it > was retained as the default executable result of a compilation.) > > From: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- > ****************************************************************** > _ __ Jürgen Weiß > /_/ /_/ / Systemadministration Universität Oldenburg > / / /\ /_ Carl von Ossietzky Strasse 9-11 / 26129 Oldenburg > Hochschul- Tel.: 49 441/7984407 Fax: 49 441/7984413 > rechenzentrum Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ****************************************************************** > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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