Re: Writing a compiler

On 2008-11-01, Louis Krupp <lkrupp@pssw.nospam.com.invalid> wrote:
>> [cfront was a prototype, and it's a miracle it worked as well as it did.
>> If you want to see generated code, either get the Comeau compiler, or look
>> at the assembler output from something like GCC. -John]
>
> Look up "name mangling." It's as ugly as it sounds, but as far as I
> know, it's how all C++ compilers manage scoping and overloading.
>
> I see no reason why cfront couldn't implement all of C++;
> theoretically, there's no difference between generating C or assembler
> code.


This is not true if e.g. all chars that can be used in C identifiers are
also valid chars in C++. In assembler, usually a lot more special chars ($,@
often) can be used to separate the parts in a mangled name.

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