Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions

[Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net>]

Erik Quanstrom wrote:
> On Wed Mar 25 16:39:16 EDT 2009, cmbrannon@cox.net wrote:
> > The Comeau C++ compiler [1] uses the cfront technique, doesn't it?  It is
> > supposed to be very standards-compliant.
> >
> > [1] http://www.comeaucomputing.com
>
> where do they claim this?  i see a claim that they
> accept cfront-isms, but that's a different claim.

Quoting http://comeaucomputing.com/faqs/genfaq.html#ccompiler

"Input C++ code is translated into internal compiler trees and symbol tables
looking nothing like C++ or C. As well,
it generates an internal proprietary intermediate form.
But instead of using a proprietary back end code generator,
Comeau C++ 4.3.3 generates C code as its output."

Isn't that what cfront did, more or less?

-- Chris