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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed3a51e96a1c868b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!feeder.news.orange.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4D6A08C4.7040005@obry.net> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:18:12 +0100 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: anon@anon.org CC: anon@att.net Subject: Re: Using local storage pools... References: <7elam6trrv39c3p9iop4fiduqa1jrat4r4@4ax.com> <87mxljuio1.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2011 09:18:11 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.2.56.227 X-Trace: 1298794691 reader.news.orange.fr 7705 90.2.56.227:9709 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17623 Date: 2011-02-27T09:18:11+01:00 List-Id: Le 27/02/2011 05:16, anon@att.net a écrit : > 1.2 The GNAT Compiler > ... > "In order to bridge the semantic gap between Ada and C, several GCC code > generation routines have been extended, and others added, so that the > burden of translation is also assumed by GIGI and GCC whenever it is > awkward or inefficient to perform the expansion in the front-end. For > example, there are code generation actions for exceptions, variant parts > and accesses to unconstrained types. As a matter of GCC policy, the code > generator is extended only when the extension is likely to be of benefit > to more than one language." > > The first sentence suggest the conversion is from Ada to C. And extending Wrong again. GCC is GNU Compiler Collection it is not a C compiler. So GCC code generation means just that, the middle-end and backend of GCC (shared with the C, C++ frontends and others) has been extended. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B