From: "Jeff Trawick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:22 AM
> weird...
>
> (this may be my lack of Visual Studio 5.0 skills, but anyway...) I
> just tried to create a new C file and there wasn't such a thing on the
> menu. I can create a "C/C++ Header File" or a "C++ Source File."
If you are looking at colored code, you will see this. Grab any apr initializer,
you will see the ide highlights c++ keywords like new and delete even if the
source file is .c.
> >From the command-line (cl.exe) I tried to compile something like
>
> int main(void) { char x; x = 0; char y; y = 1; return 0; }
>
> and it failed if the file was named test.c and it succeeded if the
> file was named test.cpp.
>
> I wonder if newer levels of Visual Studio or the compiler itself
> aren't doing the right thing (or there is something in/missing from
> the project file which tells it to treat everything as c++...
As I mentioned, it's even possible that it didn't compile at all. Fixed now,
and I'll try waiting to commit till the next morning, next time :)
Bill
