On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > >> I think it is a good idea now (except perhaps for the very few source files >> which could still be compiled by a plain C, not C++, compiler; maybe we >> don't have anymore them...). > > gcov-io.c is C code used for both host and target (one of the remaining > bits of target library source not moved out of the gcc/ directory because > of the complications of the dual way it's used), but it's used for the > host (and built as C++ when so used) via #include in other .c files rather > than being built directly.
This is a good example of what I meant originally by "unless they are meant to be processed by a C compiler." > Various Ada runtime library files are also .c under gcc/ada - in general, > I'm not sure which .c files there are used as C, C++ or both, and which > are used for host, target or both; that would require careful > investigation for any renaming. Indeed. -- Gaby
