Default host compiler used by nvcc for linux

Question

I am using CUDA 4.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 with GTX 570 (compute capcability 2.0), with the GCC compiler suite. As I understand it, during compilation the CUDA compiler driver nvc

Answer 1

AFAIK it uses g++ (to be more precise it uses gcc with language set to c++) and of course g++ for final linking. Run nvcc with --verbose option to see more detail if you want.