Re: How to determine supported languages in a particular installation of gcc?

[Thomas Dickey <dickey%his.com@localhost>]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>
| To: "netbsd-users" <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
| Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2019 2:02:49 AM
| Subject: Re: How to determine supported languages in a particular installation of gcc?

| From Thomas Dickey:
| 
|> I'd compile a sample program using the "-x" option, for the given language, and
|> check for error status.
| 
|  -x <language>            Specify the language of the following input files.
|                           Permissible languages include: c c++ assembler none
|                           'none' means revert to the default behavior of
|                           guessing the language based on the file's extension.
| 
| That does not answer my question!
| 
| -x (language) only works for c, c++ and assembler and is only for how an input
| file is treated.
| 
| Question was how to determine what languages were supported by a particular gcc.
| Gcc is capable of supporting other languages besides C, C++ and assembler,
| including Objective C, Objective C++, Ada, Go, Java, Fortran, D (any others?).
| But building gcc to support all those languages is not a trivial task.

developing sample programs and writing a shell script which checks for error
status is a task well within the expected abilities of an average developer.

Perhaps you should ask for help on Stack Overflow.

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