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Remaining silent is as good as communicating one bit of information. Even a 0-byte file has metadata. Even if it is 0-byte long, GCC knows that it is reading a
by meta-coder 13y ago
Remaining silent is as good as communicating one bit of information.
Even a 0-byte file has metadata. Even if it is 0-byte long, GCC knows that it is reading an input file. How did it come to know? Because you communicated some amount of information by initiating the compilation.