GtkD, DMD, GDC and LDC2

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 02:03 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/22/2013 11:46 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Also interesting to note that -o- appears to do bizarre things with both
> > DMD and LDC2 (not an issue for GDC of course).
> 
> What are you expecting -o- to do? It is documented to suppress generation of .o 
> files.

The questions I have are:

Should -o- stop the creation of the final executable?

Why is a file with the name of the final executable created?

What I had inferred, perhaps erroneously, was that -o- would just avoid
writing the .o files whilst creating the final executable. However
neither DMD or LDC2 do this. LDC2 generates no files, whilst DMD
generates a file with the name of the final executable but which is not
an executable.

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