Re: [9fans] cfront c++

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

cool :-) will it be a separate program or part of *c?

On Nov 6, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Steve Simon wrote:

> The first and seccond editions of plan9 included the cfront
> c++ preprocessor binaries, the third and fourth editions did not.
>
> AT&T have released the source of the cfront compiler and the labs
> have released the source of their port (read plan9-ised).
>
> I have updated the plan9 version (v3.01) to the last available from
> the AT&T (3.03). I did this more as a learning experience rather
> than to use the compiler in anger.
>
> Cfront is very old in c++ terms and is not very useful for compiling
> modern code. The only c++ code in the plan9 distribution is the
> postprocessor for the pm troff macro package.
>
> My port is mostly complete - it self hosts and compiles the pm  
> postprocessor
> however it is not finished. The task library is not ported, and  
> there is no
> Standard Component library (though this is avalable), Standard  
> Template
> library (much more work) and incomplete vlong support (I ran out of  
> patience).
>
> I am unlikely to get any further with this, anyone who is  
> interested can
> pick up what I have done, some notes, ideas, and links to the AT&T  
> and labs
> distributions here:
>
> 	http://www.quintile.net/plan9/c++
>
> -Steve