Why does the name of a source file affect compilation?

Question

I came across something really weird when I wrote a little lotto program in C++ called \"lotto.cpp\". Everything was fine until I wrote the write-to-file for my program. Whe

Answer 1

FWIW I got this error when I was trying to write my output file into a directory that hadn't been created yet, i.e. bin/myprogram.

Once I created the bin directory everything was fine; I didn't have to re-name anything. GCC seems to create the directory if it doesn't exist, whereas clang doesn't (at least thats as near as I can tell).