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Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Jonny Grant <jg at jguk dot org>
- Cc: "Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)" <ingwie2000 at googlemail dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:18:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org> wrote:
>
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> On 01/02/15 16:34, Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix) wrote:
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>>> Am 01.02.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>>>
>>>> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 01:55:29 +0000
>>>> From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>, "gcc@gcc.gnu.org"
>>>> <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
>>>>
>>>> These files are only compiled by GCC's own build system, with GCC's
>>>> own makefiles, so we know we invoke the C++ compiler and so the
>>>> language isn't inferred from the file extension, and so we aren't
>>>> relying on case-sensitive file systems.
>>>
>>>
>>> That is true for building GCC. But what about editors and other
>>> development tools? They _will_ be affected.
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>>
>> Indeed. Atom keeps thinking .C is an actual âANSI Câ thing. If I were to
>> make a suggestion to the GCC devâs, then I probably could also swiftly word
>> it as:
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>> $ find gcc-src -name "*.Câ | while read f; do mv $f $(echo $f | sed
>> 's/\.C/\.cxx/gâ); done
>>
>> In other words; .cxx, .cpp or .cc seems like a solution that works across
>> platforms. Since .cc is already used at some places, I would recommend that
>> this is to be the extension to choose.
>>
>> One does not neccessarily need to make a dev apply hacks all over just to
>> start development.
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>
> Hello
>
> Is this a consensus agreement to rename those .C -> .cc ?
There are around 11k files that have the .C ending to them; all in the
testsuite. I don't think it make sense to move them.
Thanks,
Andrew
>
> Regards, Jonny
>