On 14 May 2011 11:22, ali hagigat wrote: > I am using gcc, version 4.4.4. One file is always linked with any program: > ccgUBgHB.o > What does this file do? Google returns only one link for it as: > http://www.tourismradio.co.za/penguin-festival-simonstown-october-2010.html?jnf660ae6d=584 > Every program? Are you sure? It looks like it's a randomly-generated name as used by gcc for the output files. e.g. the compiler output is written to ccgUBgHB.s then that is passed the assembler which outputs ccgUBgHB.o, which is passed to the linker to produce the final executable. When I run gcc with -v I see different names every time: as --64 -o /tmp/cc2g8yvf.o /tmp/ccNAze7c.s as --64 -o /tmp/ccMKIOxS.o /tmp/ccqs0ysr.s If you really get the same name every time that might indicate your OS has a rubbish source of randomness, or always returns the same string. If my assumption is right then using -v should show you that the file is actually the output of your program, not something external that is being linked into your program.
