From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Generate c code from c++?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:40:42 -0600
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>Christopher Nelson wrote:
>>
>> 1st, why would you want to? (C++ is nearly as fast, more flexible, and
>> usually better for the projects that it's written for than equivalent C
>> code.)
>>
>
>I donot want to optimize c++ handly, I just wander how
>c++ deal with the oop issues such as polymophism, multiinherence,
>exceptions, etc.
>I heard that c++ is implemented as a c front before.


this is true.  i was corrected on this earlier, and when I started using my
brain, I remembered that.  C++ is implemented using a runtime support
package (just like C) only, the RSP for C++ is very extensive, and this code
is what allows the a lot of the stuff that C++ does, although a lot if it is
also handled by the compiler (especially templates) and using pointers and
vtables.

        -={C}=-