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From: brinsmead@calgary.UUCP (Mark Brinsmead)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++,net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: C++ preprocessor wanted
Message-ID: <429@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 16:29:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 16:29:44 1986
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Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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Keywords: Atari C-source
Summary: not likely...
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In article <2939@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>, ix181@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (John Ogawa) writes:
> I am an avid C++ fan who is about to get an Atari 1040ST and a C
> package. My question is: is there any way to get a C++ package for
> the 1040? Alternately, is there any C source code for CC that I can
> get my hands on? 

   I am afraid this is unlikely. All C++ compilers I am aware of
(i.e. AT&T's) are actually fancy preprocessors that spit out rather
wild looking C. If CC is to work on an atari, your ATARI C compiler
must (and i mean MUST) be able to cope with *ARBITRARILY* long 
identifiers.

   I am not aware of any C compiler for the atari ST that will suffice,
(my own Lattice C compiler nmormally uses only the first 8 characters,
and will in any event, use at most 32 characters of an identifier. 
This is probably not enough for C++. )

                              M. Brinsmead @ Univewrsity of Calgary.