[petsc-dev] Compiling C code with C compiler

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 4 April 2011 23:17, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>> On 4 April 2011 22:48, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> > There is clang and clang++ - but still they insist on throwing this warning.
>> >
>> > When I invoke clang++ - I want c++. So I'm not sure whats so ambiguous
>> > that they should throw this warning.
>> >
>> > And what does this depricate mean? That  'clang++ foo.c' will create C code?
>> >
>> > Then why have both clang and clang++?
>> >
>>
>> $ file /usr/bin/clang++
>> /usr/bin/clang++: symbolic link to `clang'
>>
>> They should use argv[0] to dispatch C/C++, but it seems this is not the case.
>
> They do that - but use it to print the warning. [and goes ahead and generates c++ code]
>
>>>>>>>
> asterix:/home/balay/junk>clang sizeof.c
> asterix:/home/balay/junk>clang++ sizeof.c
> clang: warning: treating 'c' input as 'c++' when in C++ mode, this behavior is deprecated
> asterix:/home/balay/junk>
> <<<<<<

Thanks for the clarification, I got it wrong.

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