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GCC and Sun Studio offer different compilers for C and C++. You can compile C code with Sun Studio's CC, but normally you would use cc for C code.

• bunderbunder 14y ago
  The others, too. llvm, gcc, and icc all support both C and C++. But they also support Fortran using the same technique: A separate compiler front-end for each language. For VC++ to add support for C as easily as many compiler collections do would require VC++ having a modular architecture like that of the other compiler collections. Considering VC++ only supports one language, that seems doubtful.
  • someone-else 14y ago
    It already supports C. They're just not updating the version, leaving it stuck in C89 mode.
    • bunderbunder 14y ago
      Touche. Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler."
      • adgar 14y ago
        > Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler." Like supporting for-loop variable declarations, which MSVC's C++ compilation mode (/TP) supports, but MSVC's C compilation mode (/TC) does not? Oh - and what about declaring a variable anywhere other than the start of a scope? Allowed in C++, not in C. Cute.