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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:02:37 +0000 ()
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
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 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970219200138.726A-100000@jandrese.async.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970219161602.2258A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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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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