[Dev-C++] Filename case shouldn't matter (overcoming '__gxx_personality_v0')

[Asko K. <ask...@sc...>]

Hi, all!

I moved a project over from VC++ to DevCpp recently and it seems I'm 
hooked! DevCpp is simpler to use than VC++ and since it's free.. Great! 
:)

However, there was one big problem trying to get my source compiling on 
DevCpp. Or rather, once solved, it was minor.

The case of the filenames had changed during transportation so I had 
'MYFILE.C' instead of 'myfile.c' (on WinXP Home running under iMac 
Virtual PC if it matters). Normally, file case does _not_ matter in 
Windows so I didn't pay attention.

Compilation ok, but then I get these 'missing __gxx_personality_v0' 
linker errors. Why?!?

Turns out DevCpp (or rather, gcc) thinks my source is C++ since the 
extension is an uppercase '.C'.
This is utterly confusing to newcomers so my suggestion would be:

	- Always feed Windows filenames to gcc in lowercase. This will make 
DevCpp behave
	  as Windows people expect, and '.cpp' etc. can still be used for C++ 
source.

This way, gcc behaviour itself would not need to be modified, only your 
interfacing with it.

Any downsides to this suggestion?

-ak