Martin Jambor <mjam...@suse.cz> writes: > Hi, > > Would anyone be terribly against mass renaming all *.c files (that are > actually C++ files) within the gcc subdirectory to ones with .cc suffix? > > We already have 47 files with suffix .cc directly in the gcc > subdirectory and 160 if we also count those in (non-testsuite) > subdirectories, while the majority of our non-header C++ files still has > the .c suffix. > > I have already missed stuff when grepping because I did not include *.cc > files and the inconsistency is also just ugly and must be very confusing > to anyone who encounters it for the first time. > > Since we have switched to git, this should have quite small effect on > anyone who does their development on branches. With Martin Liška we did > a few experiments and git blame, git rebase and even git gcc-backport > worked seamlessly across a rename. > > I would be fine waiting with it until GCC 12 gets released but see > little value in doing so. > > What do others think? (Any important caveats I might have missed?)
+1 in favour FWIW. And I agree we might as well do it now. It seems likely to be less disruptive than waiting to GCC 12, since at that point there's going to be more bug fixes that need to be applied to both trunk and the new branch, as well as the unleashed stage 1 patches. Thanks, Richard
