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From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <bourguet@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C++ source of GANT compiler ???
Date: 2000/01/31
Date: 2000-01-31T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874gj3$qto$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874buq$n56$1@nnrp1.deja.com

In article <874buq$n56$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> In article <389568BF.69A8DA62@tor.indra.es>,
>   mbaz@tor.indra.es wrote:
>
> > Please , where could we get the C++ source of GNAT Compiler (any
> > version) ???
>
> :-)
>
> I seriously doubt there *ever* was C++ source for Gnat. The C++
language
> was still under development while Gnat was being created back in the
> '93-'94 time frame.

At that time C++ was already a used and usable language, well... as
much usable as today.

> I think Gnat was already self-hosted (iow: Compiled
> using Gnat) when I first came in contact with it back in '94. There
may
> once have been C code that compiled a very minimal version of the
> language, but that would be long gone by now.

I'm quite sure that gnat was first compiled with Ada83 compilers and
so that there was never a C or C++ version.

-- Jean-Marc


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-31  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-31  0:00 C++ source of GANT compiler ??? Manuel Baz
2000-01-31  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31  0:00   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet [this message]
2000-01-31  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-05  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-31  0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Stephen Leake
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