From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-25 04:52:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C7A3378.30504@earthlink.net> From: "Ian S. Nelson" Reply-To: nelsonis@earthlink.net.NOSPAM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System References: <5Tzc8.111999$H37.15018616@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3C73F480.5010806@mail.com> <9ff447f2.0202220108.7f14c9bc@posting.google.com> <9SMd8.122423$Pz4.542721@rwcrnsc53> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:52:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.1.228.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1014641534 66.1.228.145 (Mon, 25 Feb 2002 04:52:14 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 04:52:14 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 04:52:12 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20357 Date: 2002-02-25T12:52:14+00:00 List-Id: Wannabe h4x0r wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:37:24 -0500, David Starner wrote: > > >>On 22 Feb 2002 01:08:28 -0800, Adrian Hoe wrote: >> >>>But, if I am correct, GNAT is in Ada. >>> >>GNAT is in Ada and C. The bulk of the frontend is in Ada, and the >>backend is in C. >> > > Okay, the statement that GNAT is in Ada and C is being repeated so often > that people are now actually starting to beleive it. > > The correct statement would be that GNAT is written in Ada95 and the GCC > RTL. i.e. GCCs internal representation tokens. As far as I know, there is > not a single line of C code anywhere in the GNAT source code "proper". > I could be mistaken, but I dont think I am. > > Chris That is a technically correct statement, if that makes some people feel better. Other than some "glue" GNAT looks like it's pure Ada. Spiritually, those who say it's in Ada and C are accurate also. If I give you only source code and you don't have a C compiler, you're not going to end up with an Ada compiler with the GNAT source tree. Ian