On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > Do all the compiler require an input file name? Can't we use stdin +
> > #line?
>
> Most compilers do not read from stdin. Also, be careful with #line -
> the syntax is not 100% standardized, some compilers do not understand
> #line directives generated by GNU cpp, for example.
>
> I'd really like to know why at all compilers are so picky about file
> suffixes - if a file has correct syntax, what the heck does the suffix
> matter?
It wants to know what type of file it is, so it can pass unrecognized
files to the linker, for example.
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