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From: Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>
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Subject: Re: Compiling FSF GNAT standalone?
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Date: 2012-07-28T17:05:40-07:00
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Sorry for answering my own post, as per usual, I can't form a short sensibl=
e question :(

So it's my understanding that CC, G++, GNAT etc cannot take source down to =
an executable by themselves so they are not standalone compilers but fronte=
nds to the GCC back end(depending on how you interpret the word compiler).

An earlier thread had mentioned that gnatpp was not available in GCC, so I =
thought I would compile GNAT on my own to see if there was a bug in it.

If I call gnatmake, it will call GCC eventually, so I supposed the term fre=
estanding GNAT is false. However if I call gnatpp then it is not going to c=
all GCC and there is no way to call gnatpp from GCC so I guess GNAT is not =
completely dependent on GCC. I would like to build GNAT from source to be a=
ble to call gnatpp. I thought it would also be interesting to try to compil=
e it with a cross compiler so that it could be used on other architectures.