[Lazarus] Calling the compiler

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Sebastian [iso-8859-1] Günther wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> > No, it is not (although it would be extremely easy to add).
> > but I see no use in being able to do this,
> 
> you can pass command line of arbitrary length to the compiler without
> having to use temporary (immediate) files.
> 
> 
> > even more I think
> > it would be very dangerous since the compiler would only start
> > compiling of eof() is reached, which could be 'never' and this
> > is potentially dangerous.
> 
> Why? This is just a feature which you can use or you don't use it. It is
> meant to be there for IDEs and similar tools, and the "-" filename
> interpretation as StdIn is very common under Linux.

Ah well :(

It's just one line to add. I'll have a look.

Michael.