<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Dec 13, 2013, at 2:36 AM, Juhász Ádám <<a href="mailto:jadaml@gmail.com">jadaml@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">the cpp (as a command) usually used to compile C codes, and it is heavily used by MacPorts (where the program was written in C) since MacPorts compiles the ports from source right there, on your Mac. One could use c++ (or g++) instead of cpp for C.</p></div></blockquote>This is utterly wrong: look at cpp’s man page, it’s a C *pre-processor*. It does no compilation whatsoever. Its sole function is to process the “#…” directives, such as splicing the "#include”-d headers into the source file, removing parts of the source in the wrong arm of an “#ifdef”, or expanding "#define”-d macros. </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>However, the GNU compiler is also capable to select the proper language and use the proper tools for compillation, so GNU's cpp will compile… I believe Fortran, or even Java, if the proper alternative GNU compiler present.</p></div></blockquote>Not at all. Cpp is used automatically by the C compiler to deal with macros in the source file. It’s not intended to call the compiler itself, much less smart enough to choose the right compiler for the language.</div><div><br></div><div>Davor</div><br></body></html>