Based C++

I wish all projects like these had some sort of documentation as to how they worked. All I can see is that the `-B` flag tells GCC to look in the ased directory for internal binaries (cc1plus and ld), but anything other than that would require more than the few minutes I have to look into.

It's also really interesting to see the audience this is reaching. The issues on the GitHub repository are quite telling.

Re: Based C++

#7

Post by rurban » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:48 AM UTC

A bit silly, but ok.

Re: Based C++

#8

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:50 AM UTC

luserz wrote: post #4

great video and source but needs a try-catch block

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Re: Based C++

#9

Post by olivia-banks » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:50 AM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #5

So confused what this is...

As far as I can tell, it looks like a wrapper for cc1plus (internal GCC tool) and ld that do a custom #define of some input data, compile, extract some data from the binary, and do... something with it. Makes it look like C++ is an interpreted language.

Re: Based C++

#10

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:29 AM UTC

olivia-banks wrote: post #9

chris_wot wrote: post #5

So confused what this is...

As far as I can tell, it looks like a wrapper for cc1plus (internal GCC tool) and ld that do a custom #define of some input data, compile, extract some data from the binary, and do... something with it. Makes it look like C++ is an interpreted language.

Implementations are orthogonal to languages, there have been C and C++ interpreters since the languages exist, as you can see by looking at BYTE and Dr Dobbs archives looking for compiler developer tools ads.