note that the topic was "gcc _with_pipes_"... the main reason to include the xargs examples was to get filenames from a pipe into gcc.... ;)
granted, -exec + is more elegant than xargs (and its in...
order on the command line is irrelevant to begin with, you can always compile and link all your source files in one step
(just if you try that on large projects, the compiler's memory usage will go...
you did not specify if you want to compile them into a single program, into separate programs, into objects files (into a library, ...), so i'm making some random examples...