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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: MPW IIgs C & CFront (c++)
Keywords: MPW, //gs, c++, c, MPW IIGS, cross development
Message-ID: <38350@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 10:46:04 GMT
References: <1096@madnix.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1096@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>I'm just curious if MPW CFront (AT&T's thingie that converts c++
>to c) spits out stuff that the MPW IIgs C compiler can handle [...]

From what I've heard, the CFront output is -not- directly usable by
MPW IIgs C, but you can do a small amount of hand-tweaking of the
code [every time] to make it work.  It's also very easy to get CFront
output that contains way too many levels of parentheses for MPW IIgs C
to deal with.
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