On Wednesday 27 August 2003 09:27 am, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> Howdy. I am using a debian unstable based on knoppix. To answer one person:
> rob@fearlesslaptop:~$ locate iostream.h
> /usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h
> rob@fearlesslaptop:~$ find /usr/include/ -name iostream.h
> /usr/include/c++/3.2/backward/iostream.h
>
> To answer another I have been using both:
> rob@fearlesslaptop:~$ gcc as1.h -o as1
>
> g++ as1.h -a as1
>
> Why would they change the header styles? And why would msft not change
> their software with the time?

It doesn't matter where the header files are.  gcc/g++ will automatically find 
all of the header files it is supposed to find.

gcc will NOT automatically find any C++ header files (like iostream) but g++ 
will.

The header style was changed to conform with the C++ standard.  I'm not 100% 
of the reasoning behind the change, though.

You can access the system headers either with or without the .h in both g++ 
and MSVC++.  g++ gets progressively more strict about C++ compliance as each 
version is released, though, so it's harder to go the non-standard route.  As 
somebody mentioned, if you *really* need to keep the .h (and I don't know why 
you would unless you are also compiling the code on a very old compiler), you 
can enable it with newer g++ with -Wno-deprecated