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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ --> C
Message-ID: <9198@alice.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 03:56:06 GMT
References: <173@cs.columbia.edu>
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In article <173@cs.columbia.edu>, jordan@cs.columbia.edu (Jordan Hayes) writes:

> Say you don't have a C++ compiler for a certain kind of machine,
> but you do have a C compiler.

> Can you get g++ or cfront to generate C on the Sun and have the
> unnamed machine compile that?

I can't speak for g++, but cfront will do that just fine.

In fact all it does is generate C -- and there are ways to talk it
into generating C for a machine that differs from the one it's
running on.  I think it's the +x option.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com