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mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU (Michael Dwyer):
> : I believe cc (c compiler) is what generally comes on a Unix box.  With linux,
> : cc is just a symlink to gcc (GNU c compiler).  Use g++ when you want to compile
> : anything c++ish.  From the man page, 'g++ is a script to call gcc with options
> : to recognize C++' So, when it comes down to it, they are really all the same
> : thing on linux.  
> 
> Except I think on some machines, cc == gcc, and g++ == egcs.  Its all a
> vicious conspiracy.  Suffice to say, in the Bad Old Days (tm) cc was
> a symlink to gcc, and g++ was a symlink to gcc.  Gcc would act a little
> differently depending on what you called it.
> 

Good call, on my system g++ isn't a script.  The man page must need to be
updated.  I wonder why the move was made from gcc to egcs.  Are gcc packages
still being developed, or did they just rename it to egcs?

 [Tue, 1:32pm]  ~  # rpm -qf /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/g++
egcs-1.1.2-12
egcs-1.1.2-12
egcs-c++-1.1.2-12
 [Tue, 1:32pm]  ~  # ls -l /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/g++
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Jan  8  1999 /usr/bin/cc -> gcc
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        66188 Mar 21  1999 /usr/bin/g++
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        64796 Mar 21  1999 /usr/bin/gcc

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Mike Grandin