On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:48:41AM -0500, Steve Fox wrote:
> [drfickle@potato remotehost_applet-0.2.0]$ ll `which gcc`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 25 17:12 /usr/bin/gcc ->
> /usr/bin/colorgcc*
>
> -- [drfickle@potato remotehost_applet-0.2.0]$ ll /usr/bin/g++
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 25 17:12 /usr/bin/g++ ->
> /usr/bin/colorgcc*
>
>
> See, it's the same thing ;0)
Yeah and mailq is just a symlink to /usr/lib/sendmail. gcc can detect the
different name it is being called with. Ala the argv array.
As I understand it g++ causes gcc to default to having some additional options
to put it in "C++ mode." And the very first sentence of the g++ manpage seems
to agree:
The C and C++ compilers are integrated; g++ is a script to
call gcc with options to recognize C++.
The man page also doesn't say anything about filename extentions being used to
determine the mode. It mentions what extensions they use but it doesn't say
that gcc uses that to recognize them. But then again maybe it's implied.
*shrug*
I'd use g++ since that is the "defacto standard."
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