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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Using GNAT with (or without) VxWorks
Date: 1996/07/06
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Date: 1996-07-06T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.836627979@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>But the original Alpha port came from the SunOS port (Richard, that has
>to be true, we did not have an Ada compiler on the Alpha at the time
>that could compile GNAT -- we bootstrapped using the Alsys compiler
>under SunOS).

That's true, but it didn't involve a cross-compiler in the current sense
since we viewed the trees as machine-independent that early on and
were reading and writing trees.

(Specifically, I don't believe we had a compiler on a Sparc that
generated Alpha code.)