Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!inria!shapiro
From: shapiro@inria.UUCP (Marc Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Is there a "real" C++ compiler available?
Message-ID: <589@inria.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 17:55:27 GMT
References: <2097@ucbcad.berkeley.edu>
Organization: INRIA, Rocquencourt. France
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Summary: There is a native C++, with debugger support

In article <2097@ucbcad.berkeley.edu>, faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
> [...].  Is there a C++
> compiler available now that will compile directly into asm
> code, instead of into C?  Alternatively, is there a good way
> to use dbx with C++ programs (i.e, using the c++ source instead
> of the c files)?  

The answer to both questions is yes.  The Free Software Foundation (you
know, the GNU Emacs people) will distribute (soon?) a modified version of
their C compiler which does C++.  Their debugger GDB (a dbx-lookalike) knows
how to handle it.

I haven't used either of these so I have no opinions to whether they are
in any way adequate.  Just passing useful information along.