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Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: "Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)" <ingwie2000 at googlemail 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 01:57:53 +0000
- Subject: Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
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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.
> But .c++ is valid. .cxx sounds pretty straight forward to me, since people also use the $CXX variable.
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.