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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Compiling gnat into gcc-2.8.0
Date: 1998/02/27
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In article <34F68913.2FF865DA@cl.cam.ac.uk> Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>Paranoids will point out that this can be seen as a security problem
>of gnat as it prevents source code review of the compiler. Read
>Ken Thompson's legendary "Reflections on trusting trust" ACM
>Turing award lecture if you do not understand why this is so.

Only if you rewrite /bin/login in Ada and compile it with GNAT. ;-)