From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: trouble compiling c++
Date:	24 Jun 1997 12:34:06 GMT
Organization:	Oxford University, England
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Liam (marl AT rmplc DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: Art S. Kagel <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com> wrote:
: > You do not show the comand line that you used.  I suspect that you named 
: > your 'hello' program hello.c even though it contains C++ code and the 'C'

: > parser does not know what to do with it. You probably should have called 
: > the file hello.cc.
: Can't it tell the difference between C and C++ code
: with out relying on the extension of a file?

No. It's not practical. Can't you just use the right extension on your
file?

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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