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In <32603@cup.portal.com> Chewy@cup.portal.com (Paul Frederick Snively) writes:

>Hi, y'all!

>I'm sure this is a rather stupid question, but I need to know...

>To what extent are AT&T CFront 2.0 and g++ source-code compatible?

It is generally a good idea to look before you leap.  I can't believe
you site expires articles so fast that the following four were not
available when you posted your question:
	a Jim D 5 11-Y-03  14  porting tips for c++
	b Jim ADCOCK       10  >
	c George Wu       118  >
	d Keith Nishihara  79  >>
The article by George Wu and my followup (as Keith Nishihara) address
your question.

In summary, g++ and cfront 2.0 are so similar that  with  reason-
able  care you should have no problem.  I recently ported a 35000
line application written under g++ on a DecStation to cfront on a
Sun.   Total  time was 10 hours, and most of that was recoding to
fix an incompatibility in the event ordering between the X window
implementations  on  the  two  machines.  My advice is to try the
port when you have about 5 to 10 k lines of code, learn  the  in-
compatibilities,  and  then you will have no problem.  My impres-
sion is that g++ is a more faithful implementation of the implied
standard  (with  extensions  discussed in the gnu documentation),
however, that is probably because I hit all the problems  in  the
cfront implementation at once.

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