On 30 January 2015 at 21:39, DJ Delorie wrote: > > pins...@gmail.com writes: >> No because they are c++ code so capital C is correct. > > However, we should avoid relying on case-sensitive file systems > (Windows) and use .cc or .cxx for C++ files ("+" is not a valid file > name character on Windows, so we can't use .c++).
These files are only compiled by GCC's own build system, with GCC's own makefiles, so we know we invoke the C++ compiler and so the language isn't inferred from the file extension, and so we aren't relying on case-sensitive file systems.