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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: REVIEW:  Comeau C++ compiler
Keywords: programming, language, C++, compiler
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.174759.16250@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:47:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.051104.25326@menudo.uh.edu> <36748@ditka.Chicago.COM> <1540@tronsbox.xei.com> <36963@ditka.Chicago.COM>
Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <36963@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>In article <1540@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes:
>>In article <36748@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>>>>5) Run the "include" program. You have to do this once.  Comeau does NOT
>>>>distribute a full set of header files.  This program will take your existing
>>>>C header files and "C++"-ize them.
>>>It's hard to tell whether you consider this good or bad!  We think it
>>	Oh! I like it! Besides, I can use that program on my own
>>include files as well I assume.  It is much better than you having to
>>ship updates every time SAS does.
>
	Since this C++ compiler rewrites your C++ into plain'ol C, does it
do a good job? Say compared to if a human performed the translation manually.