Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 05:59:51 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: obrien@nuxi.com, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/c++ Makefile Message-ID: <19854.889365591@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 21:29:49 %2B0800." <199803081329.VAA04160@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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OK, I guess it's a less controversial change than I thought - I figured for sure somebody'd be yelling "namespace pollution!" :-) If there are no objections to it then, I see no problem with it going into 2.2. > "David E. O'Brien" wrote: > > > Digital Unix does this as well. IMHO it's bogus, but it does have a > > > pretty substantial precedent. 8( > > > > As does Sun, HP, AT&T (cfront). Thus most of the commerical Unix's call > > their C++ compiler by ``CC''. None of the ones I looked at had ``c++''. > > Even ``the book'' (The C++ Programming Language) uses 'CC' in all their > examples.. > > Cheers, > -Peter > >
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