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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ releases from AT&T?
Message-ID: <254@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 29 Mar 88 16:50:38 GMT
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: The Amoeba Project, CWI, Amsterdam, Holland
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Here in Europe it seems to be hard to get a recent release of AT&T's C++
translator.  "Unix Europe Ltd." tell me that the latest release they've
got is 1.2 (back from 1986) and that we'll have to wait for 2.0 until at
least this summer.  I find this hard to believe.  Could somebody in the
US comment on the availability there?

NB: this concerns an educational licence.  Also, I'm not yet interested
in G++ (until there is a well-debugged back-end for the tahoe
architecture).

PS: I asked about the official status of unreachable code elimination by
the translator earlier, but didn't get useful replies (I don't think
replies along the lines of "G++ also does this" answer my question about
whether this is part of the language, in some sense).  So, anybody care
to comment on the question of what happens to code after
"if (constant-expression-evaluating-to-zero) ..." ?

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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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