Is a cfront tool available for the new C++? For any other modern languages?
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What do you mean by “cfront tool”? Cfront was the first C++ compiler. But since failure to add exception support, it has been discontinued. Modern C++ is way beyond the scope of Cfront.
For any other modern languages?
And what do you mean by that? If you mean whether other compilers exist that compile a high-level language into C code then the answer is yes, there are plenty. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is just one out of many.
Konrad Rudolph
2008-11-21 20:14:38
The first cfront converted C++ code into C code, so you could compile it on a C compiler. I gather he's looking for a C++ to C translator.
Paul Tomblin
2008-11-21 20:19:16
Ah, yes. Thanks.
Aydya
2008-11-23 03:58:28
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I mean a "converter to C". At a point we were used to distinguishing vetween a C++ "compiler" and a cfront "tool" which was probably less meaningless then. Thanks.
Aydya
2008-11-21 20:18:59
Or edit the question (remembering to make it clear what the addition is). Indeed, editing the question is best.
Jonathan Leffler
2008-11-22 04:40:35
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I believe a number of languages, at least in their infancy, just "compile" to C code, letting a good compiler (often gcc...) to generate optimized native code. I think GHC is (for some implementations?) such language, and there are some others I don't recall.
I know also lua2c, converting Lua code to C.
PhiLho
2008-11-21 21:04:26
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Bigloo enables full connections between Scheme and C programs, between Scheme and Java programs, and between Scheme and C# programs.
plan9assembler
2008-11-22 04:20:15