[LLVMdev] To a.out or not to a.out

[Brian R. Gaeke]

> I'm debating whether llvm should support the "a.out" convention for the
> default name of an executable file if no -o option is given to it. I'm
> currently of the mind that this naming convention is completely outdated
> and not worth propagating in llvmc. llvmc would require a -o option or
> you get an error.

I don't see anything wrong with having the default for the "-o" option
be "a.out"... If it were up to me, I would keep it.

-Brian