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From: mun@cup.hp.com (Richard Man)
Subject: Re: g++ ported to 68HC11???????
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The problems are many:
1) I don't think cfront is in PD, Novell probably owns it now, and I don't
   think there's other cfront-like compiler. Remember that cfront is not a 
   simple translator, but really a full-blown compiler that happens to use
   C as output.

2) You need VERY capable linker to support C++, e.g. linker must at least
   support names with 100+ chars name.

3) You need lots of runtime library support - e.g. your startup code must
   call all the static constructors, your exit must call the destructors,
   ...

Dave Wood (dwood@pires.co.uk) wrote:
: In which case, what about a free ?? version of cfront, the c++ to c 
: preprocessor convertion.
: -------------------
: Dave Wood
: dwood@pires.co.uk

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