contents/using-lttng/instrumenting/cxx-application.md

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   5 Because of C++'s cross-compatibility with the C language, C++
   6 applications can be readily instrumented with the LTTng-UST C API.
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   8 Follow the [C application](#doc-c-application) user guide above. It
   9 should be noted that, in this case, tracepoint providers should have
  10 the typical `.cpp`, `.cxx` or `.cc` extension and be built with `g++`
  11 instead of `gcc`. This is the easiest way of avoiding linking errors
  12 due to symbol name mangling incompatibilities between both languages.