[Bug driver/57784] GCC inadvertedly truncates source text

[Joost.VandeVondele at mat dot ethz.ch]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57784

Joost VandeVondele <Joost.VandeVondele at mat dot ethz.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Joost VandeVondele <Joost.VandeVondele at mat dot ethz.ch> ---
(In reply to Marc Glisse from comment #2)
> Uh, what's wrong about using a heuristic and refusing to compile when the
> name of the output file ends in .c, .C, .cc, .f90, etc (possibly unless some
> -fweird-output-name is also passed) and the file already exists?

I would also be strongly in favor of such a simple heuristic... it is really a
common error that has bitten more than one user, including myself.