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>That is most likely the interpreter they've had for some time now. The Lattice C++ 1.0 compiler (not interpreter) was a cfront 1.x.y compiler ported by a 3rd party and published by Lattice that is something like 4 years old and has never been upgraded. >The SAS product was to be a true (or "native") compiler- All are true compilers. There are different "object code" output's from compilers though. Some produce asm code, some produce native object code, some produce native object code for a different target CPU (including "unreal" ones), some produce C. >"cfront" which translates C++ into C prior to compiling. I was never really >interested in that Yes, cfront is a translating compiler (Comeau C++ is a licensed port of cfront 3.0, the only one currently out there, and what Borland is claiming compliance to). It has pros and cons just like the other flavors. Note that the translation into C is not just text substitution but full compilation (the C compiler is there only as a portable assembler in order to produce the native object code and is not expected to produce any diagnostic).