Re: C++ and file name extensions

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

On Sunday, December 5, 2004, at 03:04  am, James W. Walker wrote:

> When we change a file to use C++, do we change the file extension to 
> .cpp or some such, messing up the CVS history, or do we leave it at 
> .c, and require that one force C++ compilation of all files?  I'd lean 
> toward the latter.  With CodeWarrior, if you want to use a precompiled 
> header, you pretty much have to make an all or nothing choice anyway.
>

If the other platforms allow C++ compiling of .c files then I agree we 
should go with
that which lets us to keep the history in a more direct way than 
replacing all the
.c files with .cp files.

Thanks for the preparatory work, I had not expected quite so many 
changes just to
get it to compile with C++.