From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2008-11-01, Louis Krupp  wrote:   
   >> [cfront was a prototype, and it's a miracle it worked as well as it did.   
   >> If you want to see generated code, either get the Comeau compiler, or look   
   >> at the assembler output from something like GCC. -John]   
   >   
   > Look up "name mangling."  It's as ugly as it sounds, but as far as I   
   > know, it's how all C++ compilers manage scoping and overloading.   
   >   
   > I see no reason why cfront couldn't implement all of C++;   
   > theoretically, there's no difference between generating C or assembler   
   > code.   
      
   This is not true if e.g. all chars that can be used in C identifiers are   
   also valid chars in C++. In assembler, usually a lot more special chars ($,@   
   often) can be used to separate the parts in a mangled name.   
      
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