"Marin David Condic" 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr