severity minor 8621 tags wontfix 8621 close 8621 thanks Reference: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8621>
Regarding this bug, Jim Meyering has wrote in a (off-list) reply: > > I'm not terribly concerned about that, since it impacts only the > few people who are stuck using inferior compilers, and who insist > on building in parallel, *and* for the few projects where the same > source file ends up being compiled to two or more .o files. > > A very small user base. And Peter Rosin has replied (again, off-list): > > For the MSVC case and a sufficiently new compile script (i.e. the one > on master or branch-1.11, but not the one on maint), -Fe and -Fo are > used as mentioned in the last post in the bug (#14), so MSVC is no > longer affected and I hereby retract my concern. > I'm thus marking this bug as "wontfix", and closing it. Hopefully, the affected inferior compilers will die out anyway (the sooner the better). Regards, Stefano