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		saagarjha on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Renaming files with mv without typing the name two... I’ve done `gcc foo.c -o foo.c` far too many times :(

loeg on April 14, 2020 | [–]

Seems like gcc should be smart enough to reject that mistake nowadays, right?!

saagarjha on April 15, 2020 | | [–]

I should write a shell frontend to gcc to warn if I do this…

lopsidedBrain on April 15, 2020 | [–]

I work in exactly two modes of `gcc` usage. I either accept `./a.out` as the name I deserve, or I write a `CMakeLists.txt`.

There nothing in between.

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