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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: C23 on MSVC
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On 2025-01-23, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On 1/22/25 21:28, Jack Lemmon wrote:
> ...
>> compile it to be used by other objects. This is the same as in C or
>> C++. First release were in assembly and any enhancement were in the
>> same language = C or C++ respectively.
>
> Not quite - the original C++ compiler was Cfront, which produced C code
> which was then compiled by a conventional C compiler. Per Wikipedia:
>
> "As Cfront was written in C++, it was a challenge to bootstrap on a
> machine without a C++ compiler/translator. Along with the Cfront C++
> sources, a special "half-preprocessed" version of the C code resulting
> from compiling Cfront with itself was also provided. This C code was to
> be compiled with the native C compiler, and the resulting executable
> could then be used to compile the Cfront C++ sources."

The code is available, up through some final release back around 1994.

I was looking at it some time ago.


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