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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: GCC etc
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:44:17 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212131744.21@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <d4G502.Y2dM.01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <92121119638@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- In article <92121119638@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser) writes:
- >tpa10@snappy-tom.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Thomas P. Anderson) writes:
- >>
- >[ much deleted... }
- >>
- >> How about it guys and gals? Lets leave the COMPILER writing to the gang at
- >> MWC (it's what THEY do best!). Why saddle ourselves with a compiler that has
- >> to bow and scrape to the idol of portability? The vendor knows his environment
- >> and how to optomize for it. The people at MWC could, i'm sure, build an ANSI
- >> compliant compiler that would run rings around GCC. In the meantime why don't
- >> we do something productive, like build a CFRONT that spits out code to use the
- >> existing cc on Coherent? Who knows, if we build it correctly, it may even
- >> run on the 3.xx versions.
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- >Whatsa CFRONT?
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- CFRONT is the AT&T C++ precompiler that produces code for the C compiler.
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- It is the "standard" against which C++ compilers are judged for correctness.
- It will also parse ANSI C and pass it to a K&R compiler.
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- Comeau C++ is a port of CFRONT.
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- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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