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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++
Date: 1998/02/20
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Many thanks.  I think I read somewhere that "GNAT uses the FSF's[?]
renowned gcc technology", or something like that, and I had simply assumed
the rest.  Funny how the old brain fills in the cracks (wrongly in this
case :-) innit?

Now to throw the cat among the pigeons: how difficult would it be to
retro-compile the tree into C (or even C++)?

While we're on the subject: is or was gcc a product of the FSF?  Was it
(originally) written by Richard Stallman?  I'm beginning to distrust my
memory now!


== Nick Roberts ================================================
== Croydon, UK                       ===========================


Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com> wrote in article
<ufvhubywi3.fsf@synquiry.com>...
[...]
> GNAT uses the gcc backend (just like g77, g++, and the good ol' c
> compiler among others...) by producing an intermediate tree that it
> eats.  The output is machine code for the given platform.