Question

C programing

1. You coded a set of statistics functions in a file called stats.c. The header file stats.h contains the prototypes of the functions.   

Which of the following commands will produce an object file

a. gcc stats.c b. gcc –c stats.c c. gcc –g stats.c d. gcc –o stats.c e. gcc –o stats.c stats.h

2. The program printMain prints the following “This is a test!!”. Given the following code, how many times is the sentence “This is a test!!” printed?

#include “stdio.h” #include “uinstd.h”

int main() { int cpid = 0; char *args[2]={“printMain”, NULL};

cpid = fork(); execv(“,/printMain”, args); cpid = fork(); execv(“./printMain”, args); sleep(10); return(0); }

a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 e. none of the above

Answer 1

Answer 1: commands to produce an object file

option b) gcc –c stats.c

The -c option allows to generate the object file.