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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: AT&T C++ ports to the Mac?
Message-ID: <15234@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 88 03:01:08 GMT
References: <325@intek01.UUCP> <461@poseidon.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <461@poseidon.UUCP> ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) 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.
>> But it seems to me that a port through Aztec C should be relatively easy,
>> since it (reportedly) does not share the 32K restriction.

Apple Computer is officially porting CFront, the AT&T translator, to be
an MPW Tool.  It is part of MPW 3.0, which is currently undergoing the
first Beta release even as we speak.

MPW C++ is a port of of some version of CFront (post 1.0) that supports
multiple inheritance.  As it it breaking the global data limit, Apple
has solved the problem in the same way that I have been telling people
to on comp.sys.mac.programmers: to use resources for the large
initialized data arrays that come along with the use of yacc and lex.

Dan Allen
Software Explorer
Apple Computer

throngs of its first Beta release even as we speak.