Time for old faithfull test

Johnny2Bad

Johnny2Bad

Hi folks,
Okay I want to do the old faithfull test of a c++ hello world program on FreeBSD. What compiler should I use, and is there anything I should be aware of?

Thanking you in advance,
Jonathan.
 
I don't know about historical incantations, but
Code: 
> ls -il `which CC g++ c++`
1208576 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  199800 Nov 30 21:13 /usr/bin/CC
1208576 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  199800 Nov 30 21:13 /usr/bin/c++
1208576 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  199800 Nov 30 21:13 /usr/bin/g++
HTH
 
AFAIK, in old days there was cc compiler, which was replaced by gcc, but the name remained for backward compatibility (and probably some standards says, that there should be cc)
 
killasmurf86 said:
AFAIK, in old days there was cc compiler, which was replaced by gcc, but the name remained for backward compatibility (and probably some standards says, that there should be cc)
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cc is just a slink for default c compiler on the system (on unix and unix like systems), so build scripts don´t have to find out what compiler should they use on their own. Even though GCC kinda became the standard due to effort of the GNU community. This is also useful if you have several versions of GCC installed and want to switch between them without editing makefiles, but sometimes you also have to edit link of "gcc" itself due to nature of some buildtools.
 
Well regardless of the debates, CC worked fine for my hello world test program.

Thanks heaps,
Jonathan.
 
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