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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo Products are shipping
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Date: 12 Jun 90 17:19:50 GMT
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bwilliam%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Bruce R. Williams) writes:

> An aside:  When it's said that C++ will compile C code, does that mean
> that it treats it as a C++ program just with no C++ specific code?
> ...or does it recognize it as a C program?
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Turbo C++ treats C programs as C.  It tells which compiler to use by
looking at the file extension ( X.C is C, X.CPP is C++).  I tried 
compiling an X.C program that contained C++ constructs and got all 
sorts of errors.  Renamed it to X.CPP and it compiled correctly.

John Hardin
hardin@hpindgh.hp.com
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