Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: /dev/stdin Message-ID: <8220@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 17:47:29 GMT References: <16305@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 15 As quoted from <16305@brl-adm.ARPA> by rbj@cmr.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim): +--------------- | Another (mis?)use is to compile programs from stdin. First, we do | `ln -s /dev/stdin x.c', then `cc -c x.c'. I'm sure one can find really +--------------- Would this work? I was under the impression that the C compiler made multiple passes over the source -- not useful if you build a pipe with ln -s /dev/stdin x.c; (CProgramGenerator | cc -c x.c); rm x.c ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc