On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Kelm, Peter TBG wrote:
> > wow, wow ... so much for being accomodating :-/ ".c++" happens to be a
> > non-standard name for C++ files which is neither accepted by the Sun
> > compiler nor by the Compaq Alpha compiler. A quick survey of the compilers
> > I have available shows the following as being valid file name extensions :
> >
> > Compaq Alpha : .cxx, .CXX, .cpp, .CPP, .cc, .CC, or .C
> > Sun WorkShop 6 : .c, .C, .cc, .cxx, or .cpp
> > KAI CC : .c, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .c++, .C, .CC, .CPP, .CXX, .C++
> > g++ : .C, .cc, .cxx, .cpp, or .c++
> > MIPS CC : .C, .c++, .c, .cc, .cpp, .CPP, .cxx or .CXX
> >
> > If there is no extension which is accepted by all compilers (including the
> > ones I don't have) then I can understand your unwillingness to change it,
> > but it looks to me like .cxx, .cpp, .cc, and .C would all work better than
> > .c++.
> >
> Rasmus,
>
> I absolutely agree with you in all but one point. The ".C" extension
> could be ambiguous on
> platforms that are case insensitive (Windows, ...).
That's fine with me. I'm not religious about any particular extension as
long as it works for all compilers, so that still leaves .cxx, .cpp and
.cc.
Rasmus
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