From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,20ab6e4b65d0ac97 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-10 09:38:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!c03.atl99!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Announce] AVR-Ada V0.1 released References: <46b8b50a.0312050448.654d6da4@posting.google.com> <8aABb.24813$VV6.572282@news.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <8aABb.24813$VV6.572282@news.xtra.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:23:30 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1071076974 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:22:54 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:22:54 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3318 Date: 2003-12-10T12:23:30-05:00 List-Id: 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 ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg