Xref: utzoo comp.object:1710 comp.lang.c++:9346 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!bs From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What is Objective C? Summary: cfronts that doesn't generate C Message-ID: <11254@alice.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 90 13:17:30 GMT References: <3864@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <4998@pegasus.ATT.COM> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 18 Piercarlo Grandi says: > I remember Stroustrup writing that the 1.x cfront had not just a C > backend but that is could also use as backend the pcc backend, much in > the same way as f77 does it. Almost correct. I had an assembler generating version planned and cfront collects much information needed for that in its tables, but I never got around to actually writing that version. > Is that still possible with cfront 2.x, without too much trouble? There > are all those BSD systems around that use pcc, and this would be a nice > way to make compilation times shorter on those systems. It can be done - and the proof is that it actually has been done.