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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 83 pretty printers
Date: 1999/09/03
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> In article <pmVdOJAtmkz3Ew7W@avies.demon.co.uk>, Tony Vincent
<tony@avies.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > If GNAT could be built from source then it would be OK - the
source
> > could be checked and system calls investigated (not that
they ever are).
> > How would Gnat be built from source?  I guess you would need
to compile
> > GNAT source written in Ada'83 through DEC-Ada to produce the
Gnat '95
> > executables.


The original version of GNAT was bootstrapped using Alsys Ada
on a Sun, but at this stage it would be an essentially hopeless
cause to build GNAT by any other path than bootstrapping it.

You can of course build GNAT from source, by starting with a
binary version of GNAT and then using it to compile GNAT.


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