Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!eurtrx!evas
From: evas@eurtrx.UUCP (Eelco van Asperen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: gnu g++
Message-ID: <322@eurtrx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 12:20:35 GMT
References: <8463JAMESNG@POLYGRAF>
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in article <8463JAMESNG@POLYGRAF>, JAMESNG@POLYGRAF.BITNET (James Ng) says:
> 
> 1) Could someone out there tell me if one can bring up g++ on a 3b15 ???
...
> 3) Is C++ available form AT&T for the 3b machines and the 386 machines. ( I
>    assume that c++ is usually a front end for the C compiler that adding c++
>    is little more than porting the front end to a machine.
> 
If you buy the C++-package from AT&T ($100 I think), you get a tape 
(or 2 diskettes, for a 3B2, in our case) with source and binaries for
the 3B-series. You'll need >512Kb memory per process to recompile the
pre-processor; this was quite a problem on our small 3B2/300 with just
2Mb of memory. The pre-processor is itself written in C++ so you'll 
need access to a 3B if you want to port it to another machine.

As far as porting to the 386 is concerned, I think this can be done;
the Release Notes give you some guidance in porting to different 
systems, pointing out where problems might be expected.

Hope this helps,