g++ problems

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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You are right, I overstated my point. The .cpp suffix is one of
several that identify a source file as a c++ program. The
important point is that .c is not one of them.


Sorry for the error. Thomas mentioned several suffixes he uses,
all of which are shown as equivalent in the man page. But .c is
not among them.

There is the option to specify the language in a compiler option
instead of in a file suffix. I wonder if some Makefile's use
this, so it appears not to matter what the suffix is?


On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > The GCC man page describes the various input file suffixes and
> > their meanings.
>
> You would be talking about this part of the man page?
>
> Suffixes  of  source  file names indicate the language and kind of pro-
>        cessing to be done:
>
> .c    C source; preprocess, compile, assemble
> .C    C++ source; preprocess, compile, assemble
> .cc   C++ source; preprocess, compile, assemble
>
> If so, I'm not sure how that supports the statement, that "gcc requires
> that C plus plus files should be named with a ".cpp" extension".
>
> Please elaborate.
>
> Luke
>
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