From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: My GCC does not compile the C++ source
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:05:52 GMT
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On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:02:38 GMT, donho AT altern DOT org (Don HO) wrote:

>ccaa.cc:2: warning: namespaces are mostly broken in this version of
>g++
>
>What does it mean? 

Are you using version 2.95.2 (the latest version) of gcc and gpp?
Older versions don't support namespaces well.

>Another question : 
>It seems that the GCC is the compiler for C and GXX is the one for
>C++. But when I compile the C source with GXX, it works also (I tried
>it only one time)! In this case, why GCC.EXE?

What gxx/gpp does is call the same helper apps gcc does, but it adds
-lstdcxx to the command line it passes to `ld'.

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