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From: leech@zeta.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ --> C
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Date: 18 Apr 89 21:10:20 GMT
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In article <9212@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>Aside from that, I can assure you that the easiest way to understand
>the C code generated by cfront is to translate it into assembly language
>and read that.

    Disagree.  The C output is actually pretty easy to read if it's
indented properly, excess parenthesis removed, and the variable names
unmunged.
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    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
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