Re: Writing a compiler

Alex Colvin <alexc@TheWorld.com>
Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:17:33 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Alex Colvin <alexc@TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:17:33 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989
References: 08-10-037 08-10-046 08-10-047 08-11-003 08-11-008 08-11-009 08-11-014
Keywords: C++
Posted-Date: 04 Nov 2008 07:05:58 EST

>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.


Runtime and linker features such as exceptions and template instantiation
would be very difficult to generate in C.


--
mac the naof



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