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Wes Groleau wrote:
> Maybe that's because the "underlying gcc" is written in C. :-)

Maybe so, but interfacing with C libraries is probably universal
for real-life Ada programs, and the difficulties involved can't
be minimized away. For one thing, if GNAT were written in C, then
people who changed the underlying gcc could go through the GNAT
code and find where the changes affected that, and do updates.