Status of Comeau C++

[Theodore Huxibolde]

The Comeau C++ web site does not appear to have been updated in nearly
a year, but I do notice that Mr. Comeau does post here quite freqently.
Is this compiler still being actively developed and updated? Has there
just been no news or updates for the past year because the compiler is
so very well engineered and constructed?
Much gratitude,
Theo

 

[Jack Klein]

The Comeau C++ web site does not appear to have been updated in nearly
a year, but I do notice that Mr. Comeau does post here quite freqently.
Is this compiler still being actively developed and updated? Has there
just been no news or updates for the past year because the compiler is
so very well engineered and constructed?
Much gratitude,
Theo

I don't understand why you are posting this here. Despite Greg's
participation in this group, his company, Comeau Computing, is a
commercial business.

There is a contact page on his web site with email addresses, and
there is a valid email address on his posts to this group. If you
have questions about his company, why don't you email him directly?

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

http://www.comeaucomputing.com/

Last updated January 25, 2004.

I believe that Comeau still uses the Edison Design Group

http://www.edg.com/

C++ Front End

http://www.edg.com/customers.html

and that the Comeau C++ Back End emits C code.

I don't understand why you are posting this here.
Despite Greg's participation in this group,
his company, Comeau Computing, is a commercial business.

Yes, but the Comeau C++ compiler has served
and probably still serves as a reference implementation --
an implementation that all other C++ compiler Developers use
to check their understanding of the C++ language standard
and to verify their own implementations.

C++ programmers can use the online compiler

http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout/

to test short programs for compliance with ANSI/ISO standards.
I find the Comeau diagnostics much more reliable
than the opinion of language lawyers
in either the comp.lang.c++ or the comp.std.c++ newsgroups.

There is a contact page on his web site with email addresses,
and there is a valid email address on his posts to this group.
If you have questions about his company,
why don't you email him directly?

I don't think that you should email Greg directly
unless you are seriously considering ordering a compiler from him.

 

[Greg Comeau]

The Comeau C++ web site does not appear to have been updated in nearly
a year, but I do notice that Mr. Comeau does post here quite freqently.
Is this compiler still being actively developed and updated?

Very much so.

Has there
just been no news or updates for the past year because the compiler is
so very well engineered and constructed?

It has been a more longer than normal period w/o a formal upgrade.
Though there's been lots of progress, more private betas,
more custom ports this year than normal, etc. No need to
worry Feel free to email us though with any concerns
as this NG tends to stay more technical and general.

 

[Jonathan Turkanis]

Very much so.

Keep up the good work!

It has been a more longer than normal period w/o a formal upgrade.

Your support of C++03 is so good that you can basically sit back and relax for
x - 4 years, right? ;-)

Jonathan

 

[Greg Comeau]

Keep up the good work!


Your support of C++03 is so good that you can basically sit back and relax for
x - 4 years, right? ;-)

There's still tons of stuff to address. I wouldn't know what to
do with myself going to bed before 3am!

 

[Theodore Huxibolde]

I don't understand why you are posting this here. Despite Greg's
participation in this group, his company, Comeau Computing, is a
commercial business.

There is a contact page on his web site with email addresses, and
there is a valid email address on his posts to this group. If you
have questions about his company, why don't you email him directly?

As Mr. Tisdale has stated, Comeau C++ is amongst the premier compilers
one uses when testing how standards-compilant C++ code is. I wish to
test the compliancy of my code, and to do so I plan to use Comeau C++.
Theo

 

[Theodore Huxibolde]

Mr. Comeau, I am glad to hear the compiler is still being actively
developed! I appreciate the update.

Theo

 

[Greg Comeau]

Mr. Comeau, I am glad to hear the compiler is still being actively
developed! I appreciate the update.

Thanks for the support. We've been offering free upgrades straight
since 1997, and another one will be due soon between now and before Feb,
also as a free upgrade. http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout
will get upgraded before that.

 

[Greg Comeau]

Last updated January 25, 2004.


I believe that Comeau still uses the Edison Design Group

http://www.edg.com/

C++ Front End

http://www.edg.com/customers.html

and that the Comeau C++ Back End emits C code.

Just to clarify for the rest:
But said emmision is strictly as an internal phase of translation.
That is to say, we sell an end user product that we tailor
to work with specific C compilers, so customers are not just
left hanging with some random platform specific incomplete C code.

Yes, but the Comeau C++ compiler has served
and probably still serves as a reference implementation --
an implementation that all other C++ compiler Developers use
to check their understanding of the C++ language standard
and to verify their own implementations.

C++ programmers can use the online compiler

http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout/

to test short programs for compliance with ANSI/ISO standards.
I find the Comeau diagnostics much more reliable
than the opinion of language lawyers
in either the comp.lang.c++ or the comp.std.c++ newsgroups.


I don't think that you should email Greg directly
unless you are seriously considering ordering a compiler from him.

If it's questions about Comeau C++ he should.