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Re: Do you want Yahoo search to return nothing? Try: ccgUBgHB.o
Dear Jonathan,
You are right. It seems the name of the files are randomly generated
and i was mistaken. That's way search engines do not return the
related links
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 May 2011 11:22, ali hagigat wrote:
>> I am using gcc, version 4.4.4. One file is always linked with any program:
>> ccgUBgHB.o
>> What does this file do? Google returns only one link for it as:
>> http://www.tourismradio.co.za/penguin-festival-simonstown-october-2010.html?jnf660ae6d=584
>>
>
> Every program? Are you sure?
>
> It looks like it's a randomly-generated name as used by gcc for the
> output files. e.g. the compiler output is written to ccgUBgHB.s then
> that is passed the assembler which outputs ccgUBgHB.o, which is passed
> to the linker to produce the final executable.
>
> When I run gcc with -v I see different names every time:
> as --64 -o /tmp/cc2g8yvf.o /tmp/ccNAze7c.s
> as --64 -o /tmp/ccMKIOxS.o /tmp/ccqs0ysr.s
>
> If you really get the same name every time that might indicate your OS
> has a rubbish source of randomness, or always returns the same string.
>
> If my assumption is right then using -v should show you that the file
> is actually the output of your program, not something external that is
> being linked into your program.
>