------- Comment #2 from paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com 2009-01-20 17:02 ------- (In reply to comment #1) > should "head -1" also be replaced by "head -n 1" or is that less portable?
Isn't this a very old issue? I think you will find a straightforward answer / rationale in the archive, or, in other terms, I think we don't want ot change the current practice... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38923
