Boyan Biandov <bbiandov@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Excellent, this will explain the behavior. What is the default assumption
> meaning what file extension would each compiler assume and also how would
> one force the compiler to ignore the extension as a language descriptor and
> interpret it as specified by the user (may be a command line parameter here)
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g++ always ignores file name extensions, and assumes C++ .
gcc assumes .c is C, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, and .C are C++ . But gcc doesn't
link in the standard C++ library, or C++ runtime, so it doesn't
work for C++
The -x flag (see http://xrl.us/byzf) can be used to specify the
langauge, overriding the above behaviors for *compilation*, but it
doesn't change the linking behaviors.
Just use 'gcc' for C, and 'g++' for C++ .
