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- From: kd9fb@xnet.com (Peter Mikalajunas)
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- Subject: Re: C++ to C conversion program for Unix machines?
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:10:16 GMT
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- tandemino@interramp.com (Joe Peterson) wrote:
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- >On 26 Mar 1996 17:19:28 -0600, yeshwant@vivaldi.csc.ti.com (Yeshwant
- >Muthusamy) mumbled:
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- >>
- >>Does anybody know of a program (running under UNIX) that takes in C++ code
- >>and spits out C? Any pointers appreciated.
-
- If you have access to a HP box, it uses Cfront . There is a command
- line switch to force the C code to be written to a file.
-
- >The only such utility I know of is AT&T's 'cfront'. Before the days
- >of native C++ compilers, 'cfront' was built to convert C++ code to be
- >fed into a C compiler.
-
- >Where to get a version, I don't know. AFAIK, you have to get a
- >license for it from AT&T, but maybe that's just if you're going to be
- >building a version for a particular h/w-OS platform.
-
- The contact is Ed Cartier at AT&T's Bell Labs. It is not cheap.
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