Re: [Announce] AVR-Ada V0.1 released

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Christopher Fairbairn wrote:
> Jeff C, wrote:
> 
>>That would be a strange thing to presume. While there are Ada compilers
>>that take that approach I would
>>assume that since this is based on the Ada front end of GCC with a GNAT
>>heritage that it produces
>>code just like every other (well nearly every other) GCC/GNAT compiler.
> 
> GCC vss GCC :-)
> 
> Some people I know of are not aware of the true meaning to GCC. To them 
> (mostly people doing embedded development work, using windows based 
> development hosts) GCC stands for the "GNU C compiler" and not a lot more, 
> they are not fully aware of it's origins or how it internally is 
> architectured. They might know of other GNU compilers for languages such as 
> Pascal, Ada or Fortran etc but they are not totally aware of how they are 
> related with GCC.
> 
> However, explaining GCC as the "GNU Compiler Collection" helps clarify 
> things up quite a lot.

In all fairness to everyone here, I believe the title change to
"GNU Compiler Collection" was a relatively recent innovation ;-)
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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