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Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
- From: "Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)" <ingwie2000 at googlemail dot com>
- To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jonny Grant <jg at jguk dot org>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 06:30:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
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> Am 31.01.2015 um 02:57 schrieb Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>:
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> On 30 January 2015 at 22:24, Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix) wrote:
>> Appleâs HFS is, on a default OS X install, case insensitive.
>
> Which doesn't matter, see my previous reply.
That is true; though its good to keep an eye out for it.
>> But .c++ is valid. .cxx sounds pretty straight forward to me, since people also use the $CXX variable.
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> We already use .C and .cc in GCC sources, so even if we needed to
> change it, it would probably be better to use .cc for consistency
> rather than add a third extension.
Oh, I did not know this detail since I havenât peered into the GCC source in a felt forever. Would make sense to use .cc then if it has already been used elsewhere in the source.