On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 07:33 AM, Robert Fausey wrote:
> Does anyone know the reason why the default executable name for gcc is > a.out? I did a search and all I could find was for historical reasons, > is > there more documentaion about this. > Historical. From within Dennis Ritchie's web pages : (specifically http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html) "Thompson's PDP-7 assembler outdid even DEC's in simplicity; it evaluated expressions and emitted the corresponding bits. There were no libraries, no loader or link editor: the entire source of a program was presented to the assembler, and the output file with a fixed name that emerged was directlyy executable. (This name, a.out, explains a bit of Unix etymology; it is the output of the assembler. Even after the system gained a linker and a means of specifying another name explicitly, it was retained as the default executable result of a compilation.) " -- Rob Saul.|.wyrdATtriskelionDASHnovaDOTcom.|.prohibitions void where offered de recta non tolerandum sunt -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
