Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 17:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew Tucker <a_tucker AT paul DOT spu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: problems with djgpp1.10 (fwd)
To: Xiaojun Zhu <xjzhu AT math DOT uwaterloo DOT ca>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


On Fri, 4 Jun 1993, Xiaojun Zhu wrote:

> What's the advantage of not allowing me to use test.c instead of test.cc?

If file.c was allowed to be a C or C++ file, the compiler would have no
way to decide which language to compile.  (They are _very_ different)  By
requiring a different name and a couple of compiler switches, the compiler
doesn't have to drag in all the C++ overhead for a simple C program. 
[ Right DJ? ]


/* Andrew */

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