Re: Writing a compiler

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 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.
>


I suspect we may be all talking about different things.


Tony said, "From what I've read, it seems that CFront couldn't implement
the whole language."


I said I thought it could, at least theoretically, although modern
compilers which implement the current standard all compile to machine code.


I'm not talking about whether or not mangled names could be imitated by
C code which could be built with C++ code to produce surprising results.
    It's not something that's likely to happen by accident -- mangled
names tend to be really ugly -- but if one were perverse enough, it
would be possible. And if it couldn't be done in C, it could probably
be done in assembler, which as you noted offers more ways to build names.


But then I've heard the syntax of C++ itself described as perverse.


Louis

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