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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiler design in C?
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Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:

>>
>>There's very little C++ in there though.  The vast majority of it is a
>>slightly weird idiomatic C.
>
> It was that before they moved to C++.

No. The vast majority of the code is still basically C.
They just compile it with g++.