What is the difference between g++ and gcc?

Question

What is the difference between g++ and gcc? Which one of them should be used for general c++ development?

Answer 1

gcc and g ++ are both GNU compiler. They both compile c and c++. The difference is for *.c files gcc treats it as a c program, and g++ sees it as a c ++ program. *.cpp files are considered to be c ++ programs. c++ is a super set of c and the syntax is more strict, so be careful about the suffix.