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Is cc1 backend or frontend?
- From: "Albert Wang" <alrrr at sina dot com>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:01:05 +0800
- Subject: Is cc1 backend or frontend?
Some book said that front end is machine independent,
and back end is language independent.
Since cc1 is the C compiler, and cc1plus is the C++ compiler,
cc1 is more like a front end than a back end.
But what about gcc? And what's the front end for Objective-C?
I'm really confused. Thanks for all.
Regards,
Albert