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From: rfg@riunite.ACA.MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ --> C
Message-ID: <175@riunite.ACA.MCC.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 89 18:03:02 GMT
References: <173@cs.columbia.edu> <7050005@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rfg@riunite.UUCP (Ron Guilmette)
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Sorry, but I just can't let this go by.

In article <7050005@hpcupt1.HP.COM> jwolf@hpcupt1.HP.COM (John Wolf) writes:
>Sun's g++ is a true compiler, not a translater (i.e. produces object code
>not C source code) - I think.

Mr. Wolf's facts are as erroneous as his spelling (e.g. translater).

In case anyone reading this newsgroup doesn't know already, the GNU G++
compiler *does not*, in any way shape or form, belong to Sun.  The GNU G++
compiler was developed here at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology
Corporation (an industry consortium) in Austin, Texas, by Michael Tiemann
(now attending Stanford University).  This compiler was based primarily on
existing code for an ANSI C compiler, developed by Richard Stallman of the
Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Very early in its life,
the code for the G++ compiler was donated to the Free Software Foundation by
MCC and Michael Tiemann.  This code in now the property of FSF and is covered
by FSF copyleft provisions, which make it freely available to the public under
certain conditions and with certain restrictions.

As far as I know, Sun has no ownership interests in the GNU G++ compiler.

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