c++ bootstrapping as a transpiler back when it was a 1 man show is hardly where ...

pjmlp · 2026-01-24T10:18:22 1769249902

There is the whole fit into the same UNIX compiler toolchain as C, without additional changes to the linker, include files, object and archive files.

zaphirplane · 2026-01-25T06:16:11 1769321771

Oh like how gnu compiler includes an ada compiler ? Or the C++ name mangling ?

Obviously there a common heritage and the shared ancestor is c.

pjmlp · 2026-01-26T07:00:37 1769410837

C++ name mangling was exactly designed to be able to link C++ code with a standard UNIX linker that only knows C.

GNAT has zero compatibility with C source, doesn't even make sense.