2008/7/23 mk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Actually, all of the compilers I'm familiar with (gcc and a >> handful of cross compilers for various microprocessors) >> translate from high-level languages (e.g. C, C++) into >> assembly, which is then assembled into relocatable object >> files, which are then linked/loaded to produce machine >> language. > > Doesn't g++ translate C++ into C and then compile C? > > Last I heard, most C++ compilers were doing that.
GCC translates every language into its one as a tree, which is then translated to assembly. Matthieu -- French PhD student Website : http://matthieu-brucher.developpez.com/ Blogs : http://matt.eifelle.com and http://blog.developpez.com/?blog=92 LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieubrucher -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list