keith@uw-apl.UUCP (Keith Kerr) (07/27/89)
Is there an implementation of C++ running on cray./UNICOS systems?? If not, could anyone venture a guess as to how tough a port would be. I've heard that UNICOS was derived from some unix version, but I don't know anything more about it.
rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz) (08/01/89)
In article <241@uw-apl.UUCP> keith@uw-apl.UUCP (Keith Kerr) writes:
=Is there an implementation of C++ running on cray./UNICOS
=systems?? If not, could anyone venture a guess as to
=how tough a port would be. I've heard that UNICOS was
=derived from some unix version, but I don't know anything
=more about it.
UNICOS is based on UNIX System V.3 so in theory, cfront should be possible.
i am not an expert on c++, but as i understand it, the research version
(1.2.1?) is a preprocessor which generates c code. cray has an ANSI-
compliant C as well as a vectorizing C which so far i have been able
to port numerous codes with (i have just started a port of GNU emacs
18.54 for a cray-2 under UNICOS 5.0, for example). so c++ is text in,
text out and it should not be a problem. the question is whether the
c code generated can readily be compiled. i suspect it can.
i have no knowledge of cray's plans for c++ but i suspect somebody
is playing around with it :^).
-bill
rosenkra@boston.cray.com
[i speak for me, not cray, so don't quote me...]jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) (08/10/89)
The Livermore Computer Center (LCC) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab has been working on a port of CFRONT 1.2 to run under either LTSS or NLTSS (not sure which). It is to be used as a front end for their Hybrid C Compiler (HCC), which is an ANSI conforming C compiler (or about as close as you can come). I know that LTSS is moving towards "UNIX compliance" by providing UNIX compatible libraries and system calls, so moving their port to UNICOS might not be too difficult. Jim
jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) (08/12/89)
I tried to respond to the earlier "who's interested in C++ on the Crays...send me mail" but my mail bounced. Although there are people here at the Lab working on C++, I'd definitely like to see Cray working on it. With complex, vector, matrix, ... classes, C++ could, I believe, significantly enhance my (and others) programming productivity. Further, super efficient class libraries could be designed by Cray that could make C++ programs competitive with programs written in Fortran.