RE: [Dev-C++] Quick Q - what does .hpp mean?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Besides the normal *.h, the following extensions are more or less
regularly used for cpp header files: *.hpp, *.hh and *.H

At least for gcc <= 3.00, *.h have is a specially known extension, i.e.
gcc knows that it should ignore any *.h files it gets on the command line.

Since *.hpp isn't specially known, it is assumed to be an object file, and
gets forwarded to the linker.

One reason why this might be interesting:

my_prog: foo.c bar.h
	gcc $^ -o $@

In this case, the make file doesn't make use of automatic dependancy
rules, but will still with a very simple rule build the program.

/Per W

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev...@li... 
> > [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> > Of Daniel Glenfield
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:40 PM
> > To: dev...@li...
> > Subject: [Dev-C++] Quick Q - what does .hpp mean?
> > 
> > 
> > Does .hpp mean the file is a strict C++ header file? I've 
> > seen it around but 
> > I always use .h for all my headers.
> 
> 
> It is not strict. You can use even .doc. However .hpp is *used* to mean
> C++ header. But i haven't seen any .hpp yet. I use .h myself too.
> 
> 
> 
> Ioannis Vranos
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