Re: C23 on MSVC

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.


--
TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr
Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal
Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca