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Re: bug report : -save-temps and stdin
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Mike Dupont wrote:
>
>> is this known? should I report a bug? any ideas on fixing it, I might
>> be able to do so, it should be simple.
>
> I think the fix should be to give an early error message for compiling
> from stdin with -save-temps, and then stop the compilation because there's
> nowhere to save the intermediate files (given the lack of an input file
> name).
Alternatively, inform the user that -save-temps is ignored and continue ...
(I can see people annoyed by foreign Makefiles and tying to get at preprocessed
source with CFLAGS="... -save-temps")
Richard.
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> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com