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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C code
Date: 1996/06/30
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Date: 1996-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
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Henry asked

"Can GNAT 3.04 compile standalone C code that's independant of an .adb
file?"


GNAT is an Ada compiler, so certainly it cannot compile C. However GNAT is
part of the multi-language compiler gcc, and one of the other front ends
(the GNU C front end) can definitely compile C. Furthermore, all
distributions of GNAT include the C front end.

So all you have to do is gcc -c xxx.c

to compile a C file (gcc knows what front end to call by looking at the
extension of the file being compiled -- although this can be overridden
with the -x switch).