Seems all compilers can deal with both c and c++,like gcc ,msvc…
Is it because these 2 languages are exactly very much alike?
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Seems all compilers can deal with both c and c++,like gcc ,msvc…
Is it because these 2 languages are exactly very much alike?
Actually, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) has two different front-ends,
gccandg++. To specify C++, you can also use a .cpp (or a few others) extension, or-x c++, when executinggcc. However, this requires extra options (like linking in the C++ standard library).cl, Microsoft’s C++ compiler, does not support modern C. However, it will compile C source files as a variant of C89, and you can specify this explicitly with/TC.For both, you are correct that there’s a lot of shared code, regardless of which front-end is used (GCC also has many more). However, the languages do have significant differences, which are discussed elsewhere (this question among others).