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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Ada compiler of Polyspace invalid?
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On Feb 18, 4:27=A0pm, Paul Colin Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...@ACM.org>
wrote:
> The code checkers from Polyspace are not compilers.


But they do contain the front-end of a compiler for the language they
support. For one, they need to translate the code into their own
internal representation.

-- Martin
Polyspace user for many-a-year