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From: tpm@eng.cam.ac.uk (tim marsland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: C++ on Transputer
Keywords: Translator, Compiler, C++, who
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Date: 10 Feb 90 18:02:02 GMT
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In article <362@b21.UUCP> lohnert@b21.UUCP (Frieder Lohnert) writes:

> I am looking for C++ Translator/Compiler for Transputers.

> Who is selling or planning such a product ?

i believe Cogent Research were using c++ ``in anger'' on transputers two
or more years ago. according to a recent glossy i saw, their current XTM
machine runs c, c++ and fortran.

> Is there in any experience in porting C++ Translator/Compiler for the
> Transputer ?

re: porting, almost certainly, this has been done before in many places.
our experiences have been that "porting" the at&t cfront is really quite
straightforward provided your c compiler behaves.  About 18 months ago a
research student in our group (who had written a lot of c++ code) used c++
to implement a distributed hmm on a ring of 64 transputers.  He was able
(well more or less) to run the output of the 1.1 cfront translator running
on under ultrix, into the logical systems transputer toolset c
cross-compiler running under sunos (did anyone say contorted?).  At that
time, we simply sneaked around the static constructor nm/munch bits :-)

i've currently got a project student working on applications of dynamic
switching, and as a prelude to that, he's doing the port of 1.2 cfront
plus libraries to the 88.4 version of the logical systems c compiler --
all seems fine so far.  I've thrown together a restricted version of
nm(1) which trundles through logical systems object files and libraries
and talks to the standard munch in the right kind of way, so we're going
to try and do static constructors 'properly' this time.

tim marsland