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Date:      Sun, 08 Mar 1998 16:36:52 +0300
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
To:        obrien@nuxi.com
Cc:        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:  <199803081336.QAA00559@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 05:01:11 PST." <19980308050111.59862@freebsd.org> 

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"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++''.

Yes. CC is a good name for vendor-supplied C++ compiler, and it is better 
to left 'c++' and 'g++' to GNU :-). So, the next step is to update 
sys.mk.
  
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     gnu/usr.bin/cc/c++   Makefile 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   add `CC' as a link to `c++' for compatablity with SGI.

Dima





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