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Re: [isocpp-ext] Can we expect that all C++ source files can have the same suffix?

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:31:05 -0500
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 8:15 AM Daniel Ruoso via SG15 <sg15_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Em seg., 25 de abr. de 2022 às 09:06, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> escreveu:
> > All that's also true without modules, but we still make it possible for
> > c++ hello.cc
> > to produce a working hello world executable
>
> FWIW, I'd be on board with a proposal for a "trivial build system"
> interface to be supported in various toolchains with the same command
> line and options. Maybe we can even convince our toolchain vendors to
> include such a tool. I think focusing on the compiler executable
> specifically as the one having to implement that is a mistake.
>

Is it lost on people that what we currently call the compiler is already
such a trivial build system? And that it's been that way for some decades.

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Received on 2022-04-25 13:31:28