From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject:	Re: C++ to C
Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 1997 14:03:38 +0100
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Fabrice ILPONSE wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>         I've heard talking about programs that translate C++ programs to C.
>         Does somebody know about them?
Well, the short answer is that there is no such thing.
The longer one is that cfront, by AT&T, was a kind of precompiler
that turned C++ into something one could feed into an ordinary
C compiler. Much the same way as f2c works for FORTRAN. But 
as far as I recall it it dated to something in the early 90s, 
so it does not support a lot of features C++ has _now_.
But after all, gcc is just a program to turn 
C++ into assembler ;-)

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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