i know it sounds crazy but, i just want to ask if is a compiler support multi programming language? like Delphi could also support C/C++/C# etc? if there is, please let me know. or how?
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The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada
qrdl
2010-06-03 08:00:45
It's called compiler collection and it's still a single compiler?
sumek
2010-06-03 08:28:15
GCC is a bunch of binaries - front-ends, preprocessor, compiler and driver. You, as a user, only communicate with the driver, and it figures out the language (based on source file extension) and invokes appropriate front-end
qrdl
2010-06-03 08:32:31
But using one compiler per language, so that's not quite the same thing.
Andrew McGregor
2010-06-03 08:12:46
Since both C++ and Objective-C are (non-strict) superset of C and C++ and ObjC can be mixed together (ObjC++), I consider it be only 1 language.
KennyTM
2010-06-03 09:16:55
Hmm... but the semantics of C++ are very different. It has to be a pretty flexible compiler to do that.
Andrew McGregor
2010-06-03 09:37:08
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С++ Builder's projects can have both C++ and Pascal (Delphi) code in the same project. Just add existing or create a new .pas-file to C++ project. It will be compiled by C++ Builder (like it was C++ code).
The opposite is not true: Delphi can not compile C++ code.
Alexander
2010-06-03 08:23:40
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GCC can be considered as unique compiler even though indeed it's made of several binaries... but you can call it always as gcc and supports C, C++, Objective-C and few more (a lot more indeed, theoretically: one language per available front-end). At the beginning gcc meant GNU C Compiler, but then started to support more languages and the acronym became GNU Compiler Collection.
ShinTakezou
2010-06-03 08:41:01
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Borland Rad Studio 2007 does C#, Delphi.NET, C++ (and with that also the C subset) and Delphi.
In later iterations, .NET support was abandoned.
But note that, like afaik GCC, these are in fact separate compiler binaries, with a common frontend that executes them.
Marco van de Voort
2010-06-03 09:11:39