On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:58:54PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> >
> > > Obviously not. gcc is a C compiler and g++ is a c++ compiler..
> >
> > gcc == gnu compiler collection. doesn't mention C anywhere
>
> so just to add to this, gcc *has* a C compiler, a C++ compiler,
> a Fortran compiler and a Java compiler.
>
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The problem here is that both gcc, and g++ are variously used.
If you use egcs for compilations, then things vary. This is
from my Slack box. Note how this varies from the post Shridhar
has made for MDK.
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bish@aedes:~$ ls -al `which gcc`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jul 14 2001 /usr/bin/gcc ->
egcs-2.91.66
bish@aedes:~$ ls -al `which g++`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 2001 /usr/bin/g++ ->
g++-egcs-2.91.66
---------------------------------------------------------------
The term GNU Compiler Collection, being an abbreviation for gcc
is rather recent. I am on Slack Since Ver 1.0 ... It used to be
GNU C Compiler before, and still is - for egcs, See the extract
of the man page below:
---------------------------------------------------------------
GCC(1) GNU Tools GCC(1)
NAME
gcc, g++ - GNU project C and C++ Compiler (egcs-1.1.2)
SYNOPSIS
gcc [ option | filename ]...
g++ [ option | filename ]...
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Actually, for most distros gcc and g++ are symlinks to different
compiler binaries, depending upon what is installed. Universally
g++ calls the C++ compiler, whereas gcc or "cc" (also symlinked)
calls the C compiler not withstanding the binary it is symlinked
to ...
Just my 2p
Bish
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