From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Generate c code from c++?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:06:18 -0600
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>Actually, the first C++ compilers like cfront from ATT translated the C++
>code into C and then used the C compiler to build it. It is only in recent
>years that native code C++ compilers have come out. Even now, DJGPP/GNU
>translates C++ into assembler and the assembles it using as.


wow.  i stand corrected.  it makes sense, since C++ is just C with classes
and some extensions, and i suppose that if once had the runtime support
package...

hmm.  interesting.


        -={C}=-