/dev/stdin

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <16305 at brl-adm.ARPA> by rbj at cmr.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim):
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| Another (mis?)use is to compile programs from stdin. First, we do
| `ln -s /dev/stdin x.c', then `cc -c x.c'. I'm sure one can find really
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Would this work?  I was under the impression that the C compiler made
multiple passes over the source -- not useful if you build a pipe with

ln -s /dev/stdin x.c; (CProgramGenerator | cc -c x.c); rm x.c

++Brandon
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