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From: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: AT&T C++ ports to the Mac?
Keywords: Aztec C
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Date: 31 Jul 88 15:58:05 GMT
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In article <1479@mcgp1.UUCP> fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) writes:
>In article <325@intek01.UUCP>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>> We're about to adopt C++ as our standard language, and probably get the
>> AT&T source, since we target several environments.  Has anyone ported
>> the translator to the Mac?  I know it's a big program and thus would
>> probably choke MPW or Lightspeed because of their 32K global data limit.

Whether or not it would choke either LSC or MPW is whether the person
who ports it to the respective language could understand the program
well enough to replace the global data with data dynamically allocated
on the heap.

>> -- 
>> Mark McWiggins			UUCP:		uunet!intek01!mark
>
>The problem, as I understand it, is to find a C compiler and assembler that
>would be able to digest the output of the C++ (at&t's cfront).  It generates
>some very long names that are required to be distinguishable beyond 30 or so
>chars even by the assembler.
>

LSC can accept variable names that are very long, I think basically of
unlimited length.  It can generate inline assembly code for those tight
spots.  It has a source level debugger.  MPW C can do none of these
right now.  If I was given the job to port cfront.  I would do it in LSC.

>-- 
>Fariborz ``Skip'' Tavakkolian
>UUCP	...!uw-beaver!tikal!mcgp1!fst
>

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