Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!lll-winken!unixhub!ditka!comeau From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: C++ Message-ID: <36711@ditka.Chicago.COM> Date: 11 Apr 91 15:22:13 GMT References: Sender: comeau@ditka.chicago.com (Greg Comeau) Reply-To: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) Distribution: comp Organization: Comeau Computing Lines: 36 In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >Lattice C++ was a port of AT&T C++ 1.2 compiler to the Amiga and, so, is just >a translator rather than a direct to object file compiler. It's not "just a translator"! ;-) It does complete compiler duties (error checking, syntax checking, semantics of C++, etc) building internal trees looking nothing like C or C++. It just so happens that in the code generation phase it outputs C as its object code depending upon the C compiler only for the native object code generation. >Comeau Computing (718-945-0009) has recently announced a port of AT&T C++ 2.1 >... Right now, they have it working with the >current version of SAS C, but they have plans of getting it out for other >compilers (Aztec, DICE, PDC) sometime this quarter. They need to develop a >portable preprocessor for their C++ compiler first. This is true. Re the preprocessor, for those who do not want to wait, using the preprocessor that comes with DICE should be a viable route to take. We did not realize DICE had this until only a few days ago. >I have heard rumors (?) that SAS will have a C++ compiler (not translator) for >C++ 2.0 sometime soon (if not already). I don't know about upgrade plans. That appears true as well. Alledgedly SAS is working on a C++. When we will see it, I do not know. It should prove an interesting time for all though! - Greg -- Comeau Computing, 91-34 120th Street, Richmond Hill, NY, 11418 Producers of Comeau C++ Here:attmail.com!csanta!comeau / BIX:comeau / CIS:72331,3421 Voice:718-945-0009 / Fax:718-441-2310