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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:23:47 -0800
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Samuel Savas Pozidis <ssp04@uow.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "/usr/bin/CC"
Message-ID:  <20000314162347.A25373@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.10003151058570.4698-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from ssp04@uow.edu.au on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:14:22AM %2B1100
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.02A.10003151058570.4698-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:14:22AM +1100, Samuel Savas Pozidis wrote:

> I have recently discovered that there is a binary in /usr/bin/ on
> FreeBSD called CC..  I am wondering if it is based on the SunC
> compiler "CC", there seems to be no manual page for it.

It's g++, the GNU C++ compiler.

wopr:~$ ls -li `which CC` `which g++`
270514 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  - 69984 Mar  3 23:07 /usr/bin/CC*
270514 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  - 69984 Mar  3 23:07 /usr/bin/g++*

CC is a traditional name for a C++ compiler, not Sun's specifically.

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * intellect. -J.R. Mashey


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