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From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GNU/Sozobon C question
Message-ID: <4704.25b440a7@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:53:43 GMT
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In article <25724@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes:
[ some useful (and correct) information about GNU deleted ]
> 	gcc - this is GNU's public domain C++ compiler. It comes
> 		with source code for the Atari, and a Sun-Atari
> 		cross compiler. C++ is *not* C, but a metaset language
> 		encompassing most ANSI C syntax. The extensions are
> 		in the areas of Object Oriented Programming (OOPS) 
> 		Systems. (MODULA is such a language.) These extensions
> 		allow you to have several job processing running
> 		"at once" (or seemly) by treating code functions
> 		as OOPS objects.

NO! What you describe is g++, GNU's version of C++, and not gcc.
gcc is an ANSI compatible C compiler. The Atari version of g++ is
available, but still somewhat buggy, I hear. The Atari gcc is (I hope)
no more buggy than the other gcc's, which is to say it has a few bugs,
but probably no more than commercial compilers.
--
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