sarrau@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Santosh R Rau) (10/27/89)
Just a small question : Is the AT&T ver 2.0 a compiler or a transalator ? Can any body send me information regarding <stream.h> ? (not iostream) -- Thanks in advance
psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (11/11/89)
In article <1989Oct26.185017.17458@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, sarrau@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Santosh R Rau) writes: > Is the AT&T ver 2.0 a compiler or a translator? *sigh* If anyone's collecting answers to frequently asked C++ questions, here's grist for your mill. The AT&T C++ Language System, release 2.0, provides a C++ translator called "cfront". It is *not* a preprocessor in the sense that Ratfor is; instead, cfront completely parses its C++ input. To this extent, cfront is a "true compiler". cfront generates C code, not assembler or machine language. This makes it easy to port cfront to just about any system with a C compiler. It also lengthens compile times. There are both native-code C++ compilers and integrated C++ development environments on the market for different platforms. cfront is neither. Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!pegasus!psrc, psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.