cpp, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, and g++: bug or feature?

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:56:02PM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
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> >Feature, bug, or potential to improve documentation?
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> Feature as g++ changes the .c files to compile with C++ front-end.

The reason for this (making the g++ script compile .c files as C++) is
historical; in the early days Stroustrup used the .c extension for C++ as
well, apparently because he had ambitions of displacing C with C++, so
in the early days that's what users expected.