Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: linux headers and C++ | | Date | Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:27:49 -0400 | | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
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> C++ is a preprocessor, nothing more. Check how the original C++ compiler was > implemented.
As Bjarne Stroustrup himself has said time and again: cfront (the first C++ compiler) was a true compiler, that generated C as object code purely for portability. No preprocessor like f.ex. RATFOR, which just translated a bit of the input (control structures, mostly) and let the rest pass untouched. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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