Gcc cannot open .c file after creating object file

[Rick Mann]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 2:49 PM, a,bug,free,life wrote:

> Whenever i creat a .c file and execute it it changes the source  
> file to
> binary file.
>
> I tried with the program hello world.
>
> It compiles it properly, but after the linker it overwrites the  
> source file
>
> the command line prompt i used were
>
> gcc -c ccc.c
>
> gcc -0 ccc.c ccc.o
>
> ./ccc.o

I'm not sure, but if you mean -o (lower-case O) instead of -0 (zero),  
then you've told GCC to output the resulting executable and name it  
"ccc.c", replacing your original source file.

I don't know off the top of my head what -0 does, if anything.

--
Rick