Re: [Tinycc-devel] modern c++ compiler written in C

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:15:35AM +0300, Sergey Korshunoff wrote:
> > both GCC and CLang (the two major, FLOSS C++ compilers) will be written in 
> > C++ soon
> It's a time of the cfront 3.0 reanimation :-)

Too bad, one would have to rewrite it from scratch, I guess this would be
more doable than convincing AT&T to release it freely (?)

I worked around most of the omissions in the only available archive
of the latest cfront source and modified it to be testable/usable with
current C compilers and programs (namely taught it to grok long long),
it works as it should.

Unfortunately anybody using the cfront code must keep him/herself in the
realm of "historical research" to remain safe. Otherwise it would be
very useful as a lightweight compiler for a reasonable subset of C++.

/R