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Michael Tiemann writes:
  When you next install GNU C++, think of it more like GCC for a new
  language that needs all the other GNU tools to work, and less like its
  old self, which was GNU C++ not relying on a lot of tools, but relying
  on a lot of system support work instead.

  While I am at it, note that ld++ no longer needs to exist.  The GNU
  linker distributed with GNU C++ (and perhaps the current version
  distributed by FSF) works without modification or special flags.  This
  means, among other things, that you can compile C++ programs with
  `gcc' (as opposed to `g++') and the right things will happen, provided
  you have named your files with the right extension (.cc or .C or
  .cxx).

I would like to voice my objection to this style for differentiating
gcc and g++.  I believe it is perfectly within the C++ specification
to have .c as a suffix for C++ programs.  The suffix should not be the
distinguishing characteristic of C++ programs necessarily.  Some other
mechanism should be used to distinguish C++ programs other than the suffix.


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David Forslund
MS E531
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545

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