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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Two questions about 'cc'
Message-ID: <479@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 11:39:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: moncol.479
Posted: Fri Jul 10 11:39:51 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 05:57:25 EDT
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ
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Keywords: -O, temp files

Two questions about the MINIX 'cc' command:

1) What does the undocumented '-O' flag do?
   
   According to cc.c, it sends an additional command line argument
   '-p4' to /usr/lib/cg. Wnat exactly, if anything, is cg doing with
   it and what effect does it have on the resulting code?
   
   
2) As distributed, 'cc' does not pass a copy of the -Tdir argument
   along to 'asld'. Is this desirable behavior and, if so, why? In my
   experience, it caused problems when trying to compile a large
   program with a relatively full ramdisk (since asld alwys wanted
   to use /tmp).
   
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