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From: brh@cray.com (Brian Hanson)
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In article 9062@eisner, kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software) writes:
>
>But seriously, I am curious when you say the necessary code generators
>are there.  If GNAT is not presently on Macintosh, how is there a code
>generator for 68K (or PowerPC, for that matter, since MacOS seems to be
>the only consumer of those chips so far).

The sun 3 platform used the 68020 chip.  gcc has been running on that for a long
time.  There is also an rs6000 version of gcc/gnat.  The rs6000 uses the power
chip set which is fairly close to the power pc instruction set.

Brian
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