Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C++ and CLTD.
Message-ID: <5828@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 23:29:56 GMT
References: <551@jc3b21.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <551@jc3b21.UUCP>, fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) says:

> From article <10406@pur-ee.UUCP>, by youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young):
>> 1) Can someone tell me what compiler version comes with C++ from Lattice.

>      Lattice C++ is a pre-processor which requires you to have a C
> compiler.  To my knowledge, the C compiler is not included with C++, you
> have to buy it separately.

Wrong on both counts.  CPP is a pre-processor, C++ ("cfront" in AT&T and,
naturally, Lattice implementations) is a translator.  Of course, unless
you're really worried about the technical definitions of such things from
a computer science point of view, the end result is the same -- you need
a C compiler as a back end for Lattice's C++.  Fortunately, for those
who don't have one, the Lattice package does include the Lattice 4.01
compiler, so the Lattice C++ package is a stand-alone C++ package.  The
package isn't intended to as well be a stand alone C package, so it doesn't
include full docs, C include files, or much of anything else detailing
the use of the Lattice 4.01 compile on it's own.

>      The upgrade to version 5.0 is worth it, if only for the source level
> debugger.

Lattice 5.0 also seems to kick some serious butt, speed-wise.  As soon as I
get my own copy, I'll see how well it works as a back end to C++.

> --Fabbian Dufoe
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