Raghuram B wrote:
>
>         To my limited knowledge, "-o" isn't used to "specify the
> output OBJECT file" on any system, incl. Unix, or any compiler, incl
> gcc.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
>
Yes you're wrong...
Every UNIX cc supports -o to specify the object file, as in

        cc -c -o /tmp/test.o t.c

I'm pretty sure gcc supports it too.
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