From owner-cvs-gnu Sun Mar 8 05:30:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24935 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 05:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-gnu) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24930; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 05:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id VAA04160; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:29:50 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199803081329.VAA04160@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: obrien@nuxi.com cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/c++ Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 05:01:11 PST." <19980308050111.59862@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 21:29:49 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "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