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   Marco van de Voort to George Neuner   
   Re: Writing a compiler   
   06 Nov 08 12:52:17   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2008-11-05, George Neuner  wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > That doesn't matter.  The standard does not specify how to mangle   
   > names and, in fact, nearly every compiler does it differently.   
      
   Indeed, I forgot the escape based solution obviously.   
      
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