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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT 3.15 - GCC 3.x
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Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> writes:

> What about the common way of using a subset-language-stage0-compiler
> written in shellscript or C?

This is still a very significant amount of work.  Such work would be
spent better designing an efficient (register-based?) VM and GCC
backend for it.