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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Mutually dependent private types
Date: 1998/06/04
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<<> >How does a compiler that uses a non source based compilation library
> >"with" a package that hasn't been compiled yet?
> >(i.e. would allowing circular dependencies introduce a big headache
> >for just about every Ada compiler, except for Gnat?)
>>


Just to correct a misimpression here, GNAT is not the only Ada compiler to
use the source-based compilation library, all Ada compilers based on the
Intermetrics front end (Aonix, Green-Hills, ...) also share this approach.