Dear Jonathan, You are right. It seems the name of the files are randomly generated and i was mistaken. That's way search engines do not return the related links On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >
