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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/ld ld.c
To: wpaul@freefall.freebsd.org (Bill Paul)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 01:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199606080452.VAA06824@freefall.freebsd.org> from Bill Paul at "Jun 7, 96 09:52:59 pm"
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> wpaul       96/06/07 21:52:58
> 
>   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/ld  ld.c
>   Log:
>   Aw c'mon. I'm being driven mad by plenty of other things. I don't
>   need this.
>   
>   Consider the following code:
>   

More ``complete'' fix, use the compiler to do the right thing for you...:

#define	TMP_EXTENSION	".tmp"
...

	case 'O':
		output_filename = malloc(strlen(arg)+sizeof(TMP_EXTENSION));
		strcpy(output_filename, arg);
		strcat(output_filename, TMP_EXTENSION);
		real_output_filename = arg;
		return;


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