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From: rac1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (robert.a.clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: C++
Message-ID: <5887@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:07:04 GMT
References: <426@pico.oz>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <426@pico.oz>, by akenning@pico.oz (Alan Kennington):
> 
> Can anyone tell me if any C++ compilers and/or decent ports are available
> for Mips computers? I haven't heard of a single one - apart from the
> do-it-yourself AT&T.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> Alan Kennington.

Building the AT&T C++ 2.0 translator for the MIPS M2000-8 running
RISCOS4.0, took about an hour. The do it yourself part is not hard.
For the MIPS machine, a translator is better than a compiler, because
MIPS has done a alot of work optimizing their compiler for the MIPS RISC
architecture.

Bob Clark, VLSI Systems Research
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