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Re: File extensions for C++ source?
On Nov 29, 2003, at 9:06 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
| > I can access Windows partition (from Linux) on my machine and I can
| > telle you what the filenames I create look like. At the very
least,
| > they are case-sensitive. And I'm not using an unusual method.
|
| I don't know the state of the art on NTFS, which Linux does not
support
Hmm, I can read NTFS, but not write.
| well, but FAT32 only _appears_ to be case sensitive: it records the
| case of the filename, but any other case will refer to the same file.
OK, thanks. I stand corrected.
But, I don't see how that makes any difference for GCC testsuite.
There's actually a fairly large difference between case-sensitive
and case-preserving file systems: in a case-sensitive file system
you can have two files Foo and fOO in the same directive, and in
a case-insensitive but case-preserving file system you can't.
The most common file system on Apple's computers is case-insensitive
but case-preserving. We tend not to use file naming conventions
that rely only on case.
--Matt