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Greg, I think I will have to disagree with you on terminology. I have never heard the term translating compiler used. I have always heard the term preprocessor used. However, I do agree with your explanations, including the value of the Lattice C++ product. The Lattice C++ compiler did not know how to generate debug information, but relied on the C compiler to do that. This meant that if you wished to debug C++ code you had to step through the generated lines of C code which do not always look a lot like the original code, and you also had to use the mangled variable names. This was a major deficiency for debugging purposes. I would not consider coming out with a C++ compiler/translator/whatever today that could not generate debug information directly for the C++ code. If your product handles this, that's great. — Mike Roth