* Eric Blake (ebl...@redhat.com) [20140205 22:49]: > Oh - so the gcc frontend changes language syntax based on file > extension, but does NOT change the linker backend to match.
This has nothing to do with the linker backend. It's the compiler driver that passes the right options to the tools involved. C++ code needs additional libraries which are automatically passed to ld if you use g++ instead of gcc. Philipp
