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Re: cpp, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, and g++: bug or feature?

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:32:52 -0700
Subject: Re: cpp, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, and g++: bug or feature?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506222145070.13159@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <590f282d6543265ef5ead03b824d9007@physics.uc.edu>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:56:02PM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 
> >Feature, bug, or potential to improve documentation?
> 
> Feature as g++ changes the .c files to compile with C++ front-end.

The reason for this (making the g++ script compile .c files as C++) is
historical; in the early days Stroustrup used the .c extension for C++ as
well, apparently because he had ambitions of displacing C with C++, so
in the early days that's what users expected.

References:
- cpp, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, and g++: bug or feature?
  - From: Gerald Pfeifer
- Re: cpp, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, and g++: bug or feature?
  - From: Andrew Pinski

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