The idea to check Cfront occurred to me after reading an article, devoted to the 30-th anniversary of the first Release version of this compiler: "30 YEARS OF C++".

Celebrating 30-th anniversary of the first C++ compiler: let's find bugs in it

by Andrey Karpov, Bjarne Stroustrup

From the article:

Bjarne warned me that checking Cfront could be troublesome: "Please remember this is *very* old software designed to run on a 1MB 1MHz machine and also used on original PCs (640KB). It was also done by one person (me) as only part of my full time job".