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From: Simon A Watts <sawatts@dra.hmg.gb>
Subject: Re: ADA to C++ translator
Date: 1996/07/16
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Kevin J. Weise wrote:
> 
> Simon A Watts <sawatts@dra.hmg.gb> wrote (with minor deletions):
> >
> >I think that the GNU Ada95 works by a translation to C (AFAIR).
> >
> >--
> >+--------------------+
> >|   Simon A Watts    |
> >| DRA Farnborough UK |
> >| sawatts@dra.hmg.gb |
> >+--------------------+
> 
> Well, this demon has appeared and been dispatched many times in this newsgroup.  So,
> before Dr. Dewar goes ballistic, let me respond:
> 
> You remember incorrectly.  GNAT is *NOT* and *never has been* an Ada95 to C
> translator.  The GNAT front end (written in Ada95, I might add) compiles Ada95
> source code to an intermediate representation.  The GNU back end takes the
> intermediate representation and produces *object code*.  There is also a gcc front
> end and a g++ front end (which compiles C and C++ to the same intermediate
> representation before giving it to the same backend) available from
> prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu.
> 
> There is an excellent paper at cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat that describes this process.  The
> only C code generation that takes place is during binding, which ensures that all
> the program units are properly elaborated before invoking the users' main program.
> 

Would that explain the *.c files left after using GNAT under NT? I do
not use Ada, and was only trying it out with the test files with the
issue. I also (having reinstalled GNU tools) do not have it available at
this time.

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