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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: g++-1.36.0 file suffix handling
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Date: 4 Oct 89 04:52:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: dwf%hope@LANL.GOV's message of 4 Oct 89 03:46:52 GMT


I concur, I think that different actions should be taken in gcc is
invoked at g++ -- in particular, I think that -lg++ should be default,
or that *some* library be the default. Using the simple trying of
building a sh-file holding 

#!/bin/sh
exec gcc $* -lg++

generates annoying error messages about -lg++ being ignored because linking
isn't being done. Anything more complex indicates a need for a different
g++/gcc. Also, it would mean that collect users wouldn't need to run collect
on C programs, only C++ programs. All this behavior could be conditional
on the name in argv[0] - no need to have two programs.

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)