[cfe-dev] Difference between clang and clang++

[Sebastian Redl]

On 30.05.2011 11:27, John McCall wrote:
> On May 30, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Sean Hunt wrote:
>> On 11-05-30 02:15 AM, John McCall wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know why (or whether) these files are independent on disk; 
>>>  on Unix-y platforms, clang++ is just a symlink.
>>
>> They might be hard linked?
>
> I had the impression that the Windows filesystem was sane enough to 
> not allow hard-linking, but I am prepared to be corrected.
>
> I rate it more likely that some packager just didn't want to deal with 
> symlinks.
>
Hard links are possible in NTFS, but the userland really doesn't play 
well with them. They're better avoided.

Soft links are also possible, but only since Vista have they become 
supported by the WinAPI properly. Many tools still won't create them.

Sebastian
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