[Gllug] [OT] Translate from c++ to c?

[Jonathan Dye]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tethys [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
> Sent: 30 August 2002 09:52
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] [OT] Translate from c++ to c? 
> 
> >Does anyone know if there are any free programs to translate 
> from c++ to c?
> 
> Nope. The only one I know of is cfront, which is a) not free, and b)
> only runs on obsolete systems :-)
> 
> 	http://www.unipress.com/toolkit/cfront.html
> 
> As an aside, someone's written a program to convert C to C++. 
> No, I don't
> know why, either:
> 
> 	http://scriptol.tuxfamily.org/
> 
> >Or, does anyone know if there are any free c++ compilers 
> that can produce
> >code for the 8051 series microcontrollers.
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but if you're programming a 
> microcontroller, is C++
> necessarily the best choice of language? I'd have thought it a tad on
> the heavy side. Perhaps that's one reason why you're 
> struggling to find
> a compiler...

I'm interested in how good the code produced is.  I like C++ and there are a
few things that would be nice to do using C++.  Of course I can still do
them in C but it's not as typesafe or encapsulated and it doesn't have
templates.  It's just an investigation really.  There isn't really a reason
that C++ should be more heavyweight if you stay away from inheritance and
possibly exceptions although exceptions are too useful to me.

Anyway, talking about heavy languages for embedded systems, how about
real-time java which we were introduced to at uni!  We didn't actually use
it on real chips but we examined a number of langugaes so that the corse
wasn't language specific (as it was supposed to be on Real-Time systems and
not on a real-time system programming language).

> Tet

JD

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