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- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!fnx!nazgul!bright
- From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: RESULTS: C++ file extension survey
- Message-ID: <1589@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 05:32:37 GMT
- References: <1if5q2INN8pj@tsavo.hks.com> <1993Jan7.182757.8297@wam.umd.edu> <1569@nazgul.UUCP> <1993Jan12.153045.15612@cs.brown.edu>
- Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Organization: Zortech, Seattle
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1993Jan12.153045.15612@cs.brown.edu> sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes:
- /In article <1569@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
- /| Zortech C++ will recognize .cpp, .cxx, .cc and .c++ all as valid C++
- /| filename extensions, though our examples all use .cpp.
- /I have never been able to fathom why any compiler *cares* what file
- /extension is used.
-
- Because the driver program recognizes ASM, OBJ, C, C++, EXE, COM, LIB,
- DEF files, etc., and tries to do the obvious thing with it. For instance,
- if a .EXE file name is given, the driver assumes that is the name of the
- output file wanted.
-
- Also, the driver tries on various extensions if the user didn't type in
- one. This can be a nice convenience.
-
- If all else fails, the driver assumes it is a C++ or C program, depending
- on if the -cpp is used or not.
-
- As to whether a #include file is .h or .hpp or whatever, makes absolutely
- *no* difference to the driver.
-