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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/11/13
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Date: 1996-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
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James says

"Originally C was designed around PDP-11 class machines: 16 bits,
multiple registers, indirect addressing modes, etc.  Since gcc has
to dumb down C for an 8-bit machine, how much would GNAT have
to dumb down Ada to target an 8051?  Would you still think it was Ada?"

Definitely yes, most of the important parts of Ada are quite independent
of code generation, thinks like generics, packages, etc have no code
generation implication so do not have to removed in this context.