On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Jonny Grant <j...@jguk.org> wrote:
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> On 01/02/15 16:34, Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix) wrote:
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>>> Am 01.02.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>:
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>>>> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 01:55:29 +0000
>>>> From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com>, "gcc@gcc.gnu.org"
>>>> <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, Jonny Grant <j...@jguk.org>
>>>>
>>>> These files are only compiled by GCC's own build system, with GCC's
>>>> own makefiles, so we know we invoke the C++ compiler and so the
>>>> language isn't inferred from the file extension, and so we aren't
>>>> relying on case-sensitive file systems.
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>>>
>>> That is true for building GCC.  But what about editors and other
>>> development tools?  They _will_ be affected.
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>> Indeed. Atom keeps thinking .C is an actual „ANSI C“ thing. If I were to
>> make a suggestion to the GCC dev’s, then I probably could also swiftly word
>> it as:
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>> $ find gcc-src -name "*.C“ | while read f; do mv $f $(echo $f | sed
>> 's/\.C/\.cxx/g’); done
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>> In other words; .cxx, .cpp or .cc seems like a solution that works across
>> platforms. Since .cc is already used at some places, I would recommend that
>> this is to be the extension to choose.
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>> One does not neccessarily need to make a dev apply hacks all over just to
>> start development.
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> Hello
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> Is this a consensus agreement to rename those .C -> .cc ?

There are around 11k files that have the .C ending to them; all in the
testsuite.  I don't think it make sense to move them.

Thanks,
Andrew

>
> Regards, Jonny
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