[ghogenso@u.washington.edu: Problems with .cpp extension: minor annoyances]

[dj@stealth.ctron.com (DJ Delorie)]

Is this the desired behavior?  gcc *does* support a lot of file
extensions for each language.

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There are a few problems with the .cpp filename extension under
DJGPP.  It seems that the various utility programs don't
deal well with it.  ld reports errors with the wrong filename
extension -- always 'foo.cc' even if the file is really 'foo.cpp'.

It doesn't seem to be a serious problem with errors and warnings
from ld, since I can easily tell what is meant [although I suppose
editors that rely on this to locate a position in a source file will not
work], but I find that GDB can't find the source files.
It looks for 'foo.cc' when it should be looking for 'foo.cpp'.

Gordon