What is CFront?
Kiril Avdeiv
looks to be something whose functionality is taken into account by
todays C++ compiler developers.
I recently posted a question on the implementability of "export" and a
bulk of the explanations were centred around something called CFront.
I have no idea what CFront is as I never ran into a compiler by that
name. As this CFront thing has so much influence on the design of the
contemporary C++ compilers, can any one explain to me and others what
that is?
Thank you.
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Barry Margolin
Kiril Avdeiv <kav...@mail.ru> wrote:
>Hope this posting will not be qualified as vendor specific, as CFront
>looks to be something whose functionality is taken into account by
>todays C++ compiler developers.
>
>I recently posted a question on the implementability of "export" and a
>bulk of the explanations were centred around something called CFront.
>
>I have no idea what CFront is as I never ran into a compiler by that
>name. As this CFront thing has so much influence on the design of the
>contemporary C++ compilers, can any one explain to me and others what
>that is?
cfront was one of the first C++ implementations. The name come from the
fact that it translated C++ code into C code (i.e. it's a C front-end).
It has been used as a model or reference implementation for some time.
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Kiril Avdeiv
> >I recently posted a question on the implementability of "export" and a
> >bulk of the explanations were centred around something called CFront.
> >
> >I have no idea what CFront is as I never ran into a compiler by that
> >name. As this CFront thing has so much influence on the design of the
> >contemporary C++ compilers, can any one explain to me and others what
> >that is?
>
> cfront was one of the first C++ implementations. The name come from the
> fact that it translated C++ code into C code (i.e. it's a C front-end).
> It has been used as a model or reference implementation for some time.
Barry, thank you for the answer.
Was that a front-end or a full-fledged compiler? If it was a
front-end, do you know which compilers used (still use) it?
Stephen Howe
"Kiril Avdeiv" <kav...@mail.ru> wrote in message
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> Barry Margolin <bar...@genuity.net> wrote in message
news:<EQY38.10$qg4.50669@burlma1-snr2>...
> > >I recently posted a question on the implementability of "export" and a
> > >bulk of the explanations were centred around something called CFront.
Kiril,
TTBOMK, CFront is associated with the same place that Bjarne Stroustrup
works out. It was like the first C++ compiler.
If you buy "The Design and Evolution of C++", it covers the history of
CFront and the different versions
See http://www.research.att.com/~bs/dne.html
Stephen Howe
Ken Shaw
news:<EQY38.10$qg4.50669@burlma1-snr2>...
> > >I recently posted a question on the implementability of "export" and a
> > >bulk of the explanations were centred around something called CFront.
> > >
> > >I have no idea what CFront is as I never ran into a compiler by that
> > >name. As this CFront thing has so much influence on the design of the
> > >contemporary C++ compilers, can any one explain to me and others what
> > >that is?
> >
> > cfront was one of the first C++ implementations. The name come from the
> > fact that it translated C++ code into C code (i.e. it's a C front-end).
> > It has been used as a model or reference implementation for some time.
>
> Barry, thank you for the answer.
>
> Was that a front-end or a full-fledged compiler? If it was a
> front-end, do you know which compilers used (still use) it?
CFront produced C source code that then could be fed to any compiler that
supported the same version of the C standard.
Ken Shaw