Re: etags for C++

[Tak Ota]

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:34:36 -0800 (PST): Tak Ota <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:47:11 +0200 (IST): Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > 
> > >    find . -name "*.[chCH]" -print | etags -
> > > 
> > >     I suppose use of C++ is very common these days.
> > > 
> > > .C and .H were used for C++ files.  Has that convention changed?
> > 
> > No, it didn't change.
> > 
> > However, it's possible that capital .C and .H are not used on 
> > case-insensitive filesystems such as on Windows.
> 
> GNU make 3.79.1 knows .C, .cc and .cpp as the C++ files.  And it seems
> to treat .cc as the canonical one and consolidate .C and .cpp into
> .cc.

Also the following is an excerpt from the info page of gcc version
2.96.

-Tak

   For any given input file, the file name suffix determines what kind
of compilation is done:

 ....

`FILE.cc'
`FILE.cxx'
`FILE.cpp'
`FILE.C'
     C++ source code which must be preprocessed.  Note that in `.cxx',
     the last two letters must both be literally `x'.  Likewise, `.C'
     refers to a literal capital C.