On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:57 AM, case wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010, M. L. Dodson wrote:
>
>> nab -c -O3 driver.nab -o driver.o && /bin/rm -f driver.c
>> nab: only 1 of -c or -o can be used
>
> It looks to me like you should be able to just comment out lines 100-104
> in nab.c (which produce the error message above). This assumes that your
> C compiler accepts both -c and -o; some (old??) compilers did not. But
> basically it looks like this limitation serves no real purpose.
>
> ...thanks for your comments...dac
>
Thanks for the explanation. Lest I come off as just a pest, I will say that
there are good reasons (which would be OT here) for compiling software systems
from read-only file system mounts, and the FreeBSD (all BSD?) people have made a
fetish of enforcing this kind of construct in their system software. I just
tested, and the capability to use both -c and -o goes back to at least gcc-3.4.6
as implemented on FreeBSD-6.3. I've been using this OS since the compiler was
gcc-2.x (maybe 1.x?, FreeBSD-2.0, ca. 1992), so unless they were less strict
back in the day, I assume it worked there as well. I can't speak to other
flavors of Unix or Microsoft compilers since I have never tested for the
capability with them.
>From the point of view of software design esthetics, the two functionalities
implied by -c and -o, if not orthogonal, are nearly so, implying logically they
should not interfere. IMO, of course.
Thanks again,
Bud Dodson
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