> In article <199710041720.NAA13521@zippy.bernstein.com>,
> 	maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com> writes:
> > GCC will respect a TMP environment variable ...
> 
> AFAIK it respects "TMPDIR".

Looking at the sources, it would appear to try the following ... (from
cc/gcc.c)

  base = choose_temp_base_try (getenv ("TMPDIR"), base);
  base = choose_temp_base_try (getenv ("TMP"), base);
  base = choose_temp_base_try (getenv ("TEMP"), base);

So it tries the DOS, Windows, and Unix versions.

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