On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:58:30PM +0300, Sunzir Deepur wrote: > Hello,, > > I tried to compile foo.c using "gcc -v foo.c", > and I noticed: > 1. the driver is not calling cpp. why is that ? isn't there a preprocessing > stage ? It has been integrated into cc1 for several years. IIRC to provide better error messages and to speed up compilation. > 2. the linker binary is actually called collect2 and not ld. > is there a reason for that (I'm using a FC5 system) ? The linker is ld, collect2 is just a helper program. Please see <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Initialization.html>, in particular the last bit, for the explanation. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
