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From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
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Date: 29 Aug 90 15:40:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: ark@alice.UUCP's message of 25 Aug 90 15:01:58 GMT

On 25 Aug 90 15:01:58 GMT, ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) said:

That cfront is a C++ compiler compiler that generates C code instead of
assembler, then adds:

ark> Other companies have done similar things.  For example, there's one other
ark> that instead of generating C in ASCII form, generates it as a stream of
ark> tokens that is then fed directly into the syntax analysis phase of their
ark> C compiler.

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.

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.
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