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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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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Simon said
> 
> "I think that the GNU Ada95 works by a translation to C (AFAIR)."
> 
> Hmmm! I think Simon has not been reading this newsgroup for very long :-)

comp.lang.c++ : yes
comp.lang.ada : no

> 
> The answer to this FQM (frequently quoted misconception) is that GNAT in
> no way works by translation to C. There is no C code, nor any internal
> intermediate code in any sense equivalent to C at any point in the
> compilation process. Therefore GNAT is completely useless for the purposes
> of translating Ada 95 to C.

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