The "loop and a half"

[Gregory Ewing]

Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> In any case, that -E writes to stdout and -S to file is an inconsistency
> which looks more like a historical accident than a planned feature to
> me.

A possible reason is that with -S there is an obvious choice
for the output file name, i.e. <inputfile>.s, but there is
no conventional way of naming a preprocessed C source file,
so it's best to make the user specify it.

-- 
Greg