cc design flaw

[Bjorn Engsig]

In article <4700028 at m.cs.uiuc.edu>, wsmith at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes about the
Berkeley cc:
> 
> 
> cc -c File/afile.c
> 
> will leave the .o file at ./afile.o
> 
Yes, this is the case for ALL cc's, and it should NOT be changed since
lotsalotsalotsa makefiles would break then.
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