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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 23:26:26 -0400
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On 4/7/25 22:39, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 21:08:36 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
> 
>> There exist many programs that can compile either C code and C++ code,
>> depending either upon the extension of the file name or explicit command
>> line options to determine which language's rules to apply.
> 
> But note that the *nix tradition is for the “cc” command to invoke nothing 
> more than a “driver” program, which processes each input file according to 
> its extension by spawning additional processes running the actual file-
> specific processors. And these processors include the linker, for 
> combining object files created by the various compilers into an actual 
> executable (or perhaps a shared library).

My point was that it doesn't matter if the same program can process C++
code, and also accepts VMTs when processing C code. The question was
whether it accepts VMTs when processing C++ code. Whether it executes
some other program to actually process the code, or does the processing
itself, is irrelevant to that issue.