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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:56:05 -0800
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From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: What's Gnu ?
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At 03:30 AM 2/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>gcc is a c compiler
>g++ is a c++ compiler

Actually, I seem to recall in the readme and etc that g++ and gcc
are just two different names for the same compiler. One way the
system knows the difference between c and c++ source is that
developers should name thier c++ source files *.C (as opposed to
*.c). And thats just ONE way.

-Tim