Does g++ really need to compile main, if c++ code is involved?

[Eric Wolf]

On 3/20/2014 7:29 AM, Tim Prince wrote:
> On 3/20/2014 4:27 AM, Eric Wolf wrote:
>>
>>We have a big bunch of C and C++ code in our product and compile
>>main with g++, because I read in
>>
>>http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq/overview-mixing-langs.html
>>
>>that this is needed.
>
> The proper compile mode will be selected regardless of whether you invoke gcc, g++, gfortran, ... e.g. according to the file name. As your reference pointed out, that is not true of many other compilers.

That's not the point.

I can easily move the main function into a file ending with .c. Linking 
will still succeed, but I assume, that things will start to go terribly
wrong, when the c++ code throws an exception, which is caught nowhere,
or if one tries to use a global non pod object.

Here I need a catalog of things, I am not allowed to do in the c++ 
portion of the code, so that nothing goes wrong.

> The second point in that reference is valid: g++ includes -lstdc++ implicitly, which the other languages do not, so that g++ references can be satisfied during linking.

That's useful. So I can use ld to link again, as long as I include 
-lstdc++ Option. That's all?

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version of the mailing list and my mail programm is defective. I can't
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Yours sincerely,

Eric Wolf