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Subject: Re: Chess programs in C vs. C++

Author: Pat King

Date: 07:18:09 11/30/01

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On November 30, 2001 at 02:19:22, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Does a program (not limited to only chess programs) compile differently if it's
>compiled as a C program rather than a C++ program? For example, if a program is
>written in straight C, but has a .cpp extention, MSVC++ will compile it as C++
>(to the best of my knowledge), and I'm wondering if there is any difference at
>all between the compilation of a C program when compiled as C++ versus a C
>program compiled as C.

The big difference I can think of off-hand is the libraries the compiler tries
to link to. Certainly trying to link a C++ program w/o specifying the right
libraries causes a mess. Going the other way around is probably easier. But why
don't you want to put the right extension on the file in the first place?



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