> applications will just work, but introducing the very serious risk of
> security problems, leading to, say:
>
> gcc: dj:yourpassword:1234:567:DJ: invalid argument
>
> instead of
>
> gcc: @/etc/passwd: invalid argument

If you want to use gcc to read a file, you get a closer likeness
to the data with:

gcc -E -C -x c /etc/passwd

Polluting argument name space seems more worrying. A long option would not create
such ambiguities.

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