On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:56:02PM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > >Feature, bug, or potential to improve documentation? > > 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.
