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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: <1991Apr18.174810.14120@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:48:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.051104.25326@menudo.uh.edu> <36748@ditka.Chicago.COM> <1991Apr15.170545.14190@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <37044@ditka.Chicago.COM>
Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <37044@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>In article <1991Apr15.170545.14190@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>>In article <36748@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>>>since we are requiring that you have a C
>>>compiler, and since each C compiler is slightly different, if we literally
>>
>>	I am confused. Does the C++ compiler rewrite your C++ source code into
>>plain'ol C and use your old 'C' compiler to compile it or is it that it was too
>>costly (whatever) to include your own includes? I don't understand how any
>>idiosyncrasies could crop up if your old compiler is not being used.
>>
>
>Like it says, we currently require you to have a C compiler.  Comeau C++
>DOES NOT rewrite your C++ source into plain'ol C though.  It does full
>compilation (syntax, semantic, error, type, etc checking, analysis, etc)
>and decides in it's code generation phase to output C based on it internal
>compiler trees (which look nothing like C or C++ BTW).  So, since the C has
>the includes already, it would be redundant for us to re-supply them.
>
>Only in cases where things have "gone wrong" will we supply an include file
>and/or a patch to one.
>
>- Greg
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	You only require a C compiler, because it is bundled with the include
files. What if a potential customer does not already have a C compiler and
therefore no includes. This is not an impossible scenario. I guess as a 
recourse one could obtain the include files from CATS. I read earlier that
your C++ compiler was selling for $250. That seems steep considering that it
is incomplete.

-jeff