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From: rswhite@cacd.rockwell.com (Robert S. White)
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Subject: Re: debugging GNAT programs
Date: 3 Mar 1995 22:33:35 GMT
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In article <D4u3Js.G20@thomsoft.com>, kst@thomsoft.com says...
>In <1995Mar2.095243.14051@sei.cmu.edu> marc@sei.cmu.edu (Marc Graham) writes:
.
>> raised. (Anyway, gdb debugs the generated c code, not the Ada
>> code. Which makes it pretty useless.)
>
>First of all, there is no generated C code.  The name GNAT (GNU Ada
>Translator) is perhaps slightly misleading, but it's a true compiler
>that happens to share a backend with several other GNU compilers.
.
But what is the "b_hello.c" file generated by gnatbl from the hello.ali file
which was generated from the hello.adb (from the GNAT examples) file by gcc?
It sure looks like C code.  Granted the GNU compilers use an intermediate
code which is not C for the optimization pass.  But it sure looks like the 
current GNAT 2.03a for Win NT uses (or generates as an incidental) C source
code.  This step could be enventually skipped IMHO.  I don't have the files
in front of me right now (they are on my home machine), but this is what I
remember from my new experience in the past week with GNAT.