/dev/stdin

[Chris Torek]

>In article <16305 at brl-adm.ARPA> rbj at cmr.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) suggests:
>>Another (mis?)use is to compile programs from stdin. First, we do
>>`ln -s /dev/stdin x.c', then `cc -c x.c'. ...

In article <8220 at ncoast.UUCP> allbery at ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Would this work?  I was under the impression that the C compiler made
>multiple passes over the source ....

Some do; but the first will be /lib/cpp, with output sent to a temp
file, in this case.  I suppose someone might run the preprocessor
twice. . . .
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