Re: [Tinycc-devel] CFront for TinyCC?

[grischka]

Roy Tam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from an old thread (
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2008-11/msg00024.html
> ) :
>
> > > Also would be nice to have some C++ support, but it could be very difficult, I 
> > > lost the hope to have a superfast C++ compiler.
> > I once have made some experiments with the historical "CFRONT AT&T C++
> > to C Translators", with TCC used for the PP and the C to OBJ part.
> >
> > It works quite well, with both cfront 1.0 (1986) and cfront 3.0.3 (1997).
> > If someone is interested I can post more information.  Note however that
> > even the latter version is not about today's C++ (although close already).
>
> grischka, I wonder if you can give more details about this (and
> hopefully with source files).
> Thanks.

Historical cfront sources (1.0 and 3.0.3) are here:
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus

IIRC one thing that needs to be fixed are expanded "getc" macros in
the bootstrap C files (scratch dir) as they refer to a struct FILE
which likely is not what you have nowadays.

A patch for 1.0 attached.  All from 2007. no warranty whatsoever.

-- gr

> Regards,
> Roy

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