Question about C++ precompiling into C-code...

Hello,


In an article of 1989 I have read the following:


                Object-oriented languages lik C++ and Eiffel usually do not
                translate directly into machine language, but use a precompiler to
                translate into C.


I was wondering if anybody knows which compilers use such a precompiler
and which don't.


Does anybody know where to get more information about this
subject?


Regards,


Pieter Biemond
[Early C++ compilers were all based on Bell Labs' cfront which translated
into C. Most current C++ compilers go direct to assembler or machine code.
As far as I know there's only one source for Eiffel compilers and they all
translate into C. For languages that are either very high level or else
low-level and semantically not too far from C, using C as an intermediate
code isn't a bad way to get bootstrapped. -John]






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