Re: [PLUG] gcc vs cc vs c++

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

Kyle R. Burton wrote:
> gcc/cc treats the source code as C, where that syntax involving cout
> means something (very) different (left-shift).  g++/c++ treats the
> source code as C++ where operator overloading on the cout object (an
> ostream) makes the left-shift operation mean something completely
> different (equivalent to a function call, like write).
>
> The link error is related to the default libraries that are linked in,
> for gcc/cc it's just libc (and maybe some others).  For g++/c++ it should
> include libstdc++ (which is where cout and other things live).

To follow up on this, its the same compiler. Its just that when you 
invoke gcc as g++, as Kyle points out, it goes into C++ mode. You can 
use gcc as gcc if you specify the language and link with the appropriate 
librarys. For the simple example of:

#include <ostream.h>

int main()
{
  cout << "Hello, World" << endl;
  return 0;
}

You could compile this with either:

g++ foo.cpp

or

gcc -std=gnu++98 -lstdc++ foo.cpp

I'd recomnend not doing the latter. C++ is sufficiently complex that 
there are good reasons for g++ to exist.

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