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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: How to keep the C code produced by GNAT ?
Date: 1996/12/09
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Date: 1996-12-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Hi all,
The program gnatbl is provided for binding and linking using the RTL in the
most simple situations.  Gnatbl calls  gnatbind which creates a C file
(b_hello.c, for example) containing calls to all of the elaboration
routines; then it compiles this file; then it invokes gcc to do the
linking.  If the switch -g is used, debugging information is included in
the objects, and the b_<main-unit-name>.c file is kept for use by symbolic
debuggers.  To my knowledge, this is the only .c file produced by any of
the gnat programs.

I hope this makes the matter more clear.
 
David C. Hoos, Sr.,
http://www.dbhwww.com
http://www.ada95.com

Adam Tyner <ctyner@awod.com> wrote in article
<58fbmg$guc@hubcap.clemson.edu>...
> In article <58a36c$13ra@mdnews.btv.ibm.com>, pontius@btv.ibm.com says...
> >
> >I don't believe C code ever gets generated by GNAT. I believe
> >the Ada front-end feeds abstract data structures to the gcc
> >back-end directly. No C ever exists.
> 
> What I believe he's thinking of is there is a file with a .C extension
that's
> produced when GNAT compiles.  I've edited one of these .C files that was
left 
> when GNAT crashed once, and Dale's right -- it's not C, despite the
extension.
> 
> -Adam Tyner
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