dmd codegen improvements
Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 3 14:28:52 PDT 2015
On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 07:04:11 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 9/2/2015 9:55 PM, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
>> Most C++ compilers are dead.
>
> Actually, only a tiny handful of original C++ compilers were
> ever created. The rest are just evolved versions of them.
>
> To list them (from memory):
>
> Cfront (Bjarne Stroustrup)
> Zortech C++ (Me)
> G++ (Michael Tiemann)
> Clang
> Edison Design Group (Daveed Vandevorde)
> Taumetric (Michael Ball)
> Microsoft
>
> There were a lot of original C compilers developed, but they
> pretty much all failed to make the transition to C++.
I expected the list to be longer. Which one represents the
non-cfront SGI compilers? SGI was quite heavily into C++ unlike
most of the Unix world.
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