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> All that existed before was Cfront, And G++, GNU C++. I worked on it a little in 1989. > Stroustrup's pre-compiler Cfront was a compiler. It output C as ob
by bboreham 4y ago
> All that existed before was Cfront,
And G++, GNU C++. I worked on it a little in 1989.
> Stroustrup's pre-compiler
Cfront was a compiler. It output C as object code so it could more easily target different processor architectures, but was no less of a compiler for that.
- pjmlp 4y agoGNU compilers were largely ignored until Sun made the first step, followed by other UNIX vendors, to split UNIX worloads into user and developer packages. Sundenly many UNIX customers decided to improve GCC instead of paying UNIX developer licenses.
- bboreham 4y agoI recall X11R3 went so much faster compiled with gcc that everyone _had_ to get a copy. That was on 68000 though; I think gcc wasn’t so good on RISCs with branch delay slots for a long time.