Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> a �crit dans
le message news: 9bpfgk$1gb$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> As for my apparent misconception about how Gnat would potentially move to
> different platforms, let me ask this: If Gnat and gcc merge, doesn't that
> mean that the Ada front end is now hooked to the normally distributed gcc
> back end? I noticed on the web site for gcc
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html) that they talk about front ends
> for a variety of languages and my understanding was that the various front
> ends are - or could be - built together much as Gnat will translate Ada or
> C.
Don't forget that there is more to a compiler than translating code. You
need an implementation of the whole run-time library, and that will not be
automatically available for all targets supported by gcc.

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