[libstdc++] Different version tag for libsupc++, document , config option

Phil Edwards phil@jaj.com
Sun Feb 24 21:37:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:12:12PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> | (There seem to be two spellings for C++ that are legal identifiers:
> | CPP, and CXX.  The former is C Plus Plus, the second is plus signs
> | turned on an angle.)

I believe Digital (or Compaq or whoever they are this week) used 'cxx'
as the invocation for their compiler.

> I always tought that CXX stood for "C excess".

CXS, surely?  :-)


Phil

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