Windows confusing object file names for other file types

[Julian Waters]

Hi all,

Yes, I was referring to what Magnus mentioned about the file associations.
Hopefully this can be ignored, since I wasn't in a very clear state of mind
when I posted this to the mailing lists :/

best regards,
Julian

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 10:47 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 3/03/2022 11:29 pm, Julian Waters wrote:
> > Windows seems to commonly confuse object file names that are created
> during
> > the build process
>
> I don't understand what you mean by that, please elaborate.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> > , despite .obj being the normal file format for object
> > files on it (Weirdly enough), which is pretty likely because of
> pre-defined
> > registry entries and applications that come together with it with fresh
> > installs. This does sort of make it a pretty troublesome issue to solve,
> > and I can't really think of any good all encompassing fix other than to
> > change the object file suffix to something else (Which would be pretty
> > simple to do but I don't know if that would have any unwanted side
> effects
> > elsewhere), I'm not sure if this is something the proposed solution would
> > be ok for or if there are better ways to do this?
> >
> > best regards,
> > Julian
> >
> > P.S. Windows stop being so bloated please ;-;
>