Cfront
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Cfront
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Cfront was the original compiler for C++ from around 1983, which converted C++ to C; developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT&T Bell Labs. The preprocessor did not understand all of the language and much of the code was written via translations. Cfront had a complete parser, built symbol tables, and built a tree for each class, function, etc. Cfront was based on CPre, a C compiler started in 1979. As Cfront was written in C++, it was a challenge to bootstrap on a machine without a C++ compiler/trans
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Original compiler for C++
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2024-03-06T21:41:50Z
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