error compiling with gcc

[zomgitszan]

i just setup fc4 on my laptop and encountered a weird error while compiling a simple c++ file i get this error

zan /tmp/ccCQf955.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
zan collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

now that comes from both using gcc /path/to/file/test.cpp and gcc /path/to/file/test.cpp -o test
i change the file to a .c file and compiles fine no errors i compile the same cpp file with g++ and it is fine the code is below. is there somthing i need todo with some settings to get gcc to compile a c++ file or is this a bug?

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
	printf("lalalala");
	return 0;

}

my ver of gcc is
gcc version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)
and again this is a simple app, but i did it just to see if i would encounter a problem and not 10,000 lines later
thanks
rick

[tashirosgt]

As you found out, g++ is used to compile C++ programs and gcc is used for C programs. I think these commands invoke different preprocessors. What I find interesting about your results is that they apparently pay attention to the file extension (*.c vs *.cpp). I think if you put some functions in the test program that are part of C++ and not part of C, you will find that only g++ compiles it.

[zomgitszan]

thanks for that info, i was lead to belive that gcc would compile both c and c++. anyway thanks for the reply