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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:02:37 +0000 ()
From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
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To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
cc: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com>, rewt@i-plus.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What's Gnu ?
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:

=)On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Tim Oneil wrote:
=)
=)> 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.
=)
=)I thought it was *.cc for C++ source?
=) 
gcc takes a lot of different extensions to be c++ files:
.C .cc .cpp .cxx 

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