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   George Neuner to alexc@TheWorld.com   
   Re: Writing a compiler   
   04 Nov 08 22:29:03   
   
   From: gneuner2@comcast.net   
      
   On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:17:33 +0000 (UTC), Alex Colvin   
    wrote:   
      
   >>Tony said, "From what I've read, it seems that CFront couldn't implement   
   >>the whole language."   
   >   
   >>I said I thought it could, at least theoretically, although modern   
   >>compilers which implement the current standard all compile to machine code.   
   >   
   >Runtime and linker features such as exceptions and template instantiation   
   >would be very difficult to generate in C.   
      
   Exceptions are not a problem - there are a number of implementations   
   that would be feasible to code in C.  You might not be able to code   
   the fastest possible implementation, but it would certainly work.   
      
   Templates I'm not certain about but I can't immediately think of   
   anything that would preclude implementing them.   
      
   George   
      
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