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From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Amiga G++: maybe soon, probably later
Message-ID: <VINSCI.91Jan23223706@nic.nic.funet.fi>
Date: 23 Jan 91 21:37:06 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu's message of 22 Jan 91 23:04:57 GMT

In article <718@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
   In article <26429@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> pm0@springs.cis.ufl.edu (Patrick Martin) writes:
   > [...]
   >If I could have held off my purchase of C++ I would have.  (Especially
   >in light of the current development of G++)
   >
   >Pat

   This is the second post I've seen mentioning _G_++.  At first, I thought it
   was just a weird typo.  So what is G++?  Some sort of C++ dialect/offshoot,
   or just some marketdroid's idea of a clever name?

G++ is the Free Software Foundation's GNU C++ compiler, a close
relative to the GNU C compiler which is usually referred to as GCC.
Rather than call GNU C++ GC++, it seems they dropped the C and left
was G++.

   Or is it just a weird typo (that spreads... ;-)?

One never know; it could be a human fnger virus; whenever you try to
type C the virus causes you to write G :-).
  
  Regarding the porting of G++ to the Amiga, I'd like to point out
that as far as I know, nobody is currently working actively on it;
instead the group have started working on porting the next major
revision of GCC which has C++ and Objective C frontends built in.
(Ie., since that version will be ported anyway, it feels unnecessary
to do the job twice).
  If you feel you can't wait, as far as I understand what needs to be
done is make GNU ld++ behave as the Amiga port of GNU ld (work done by
Markus Wild). Other than that, it should be as easy as installing GCC
and typing make in the G++ dir. (I'm probably overlooking something).
The source to the ported ld is available on nic.funet.fi in the directory
~pub/amiga/gnu/gcc/port/Wild/

The file is:

-rw-rw-r--  1 vinsci   ftp         33912 Jan  3 05:55 ld910101.lzh

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-- Leonard