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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Outrageous Thoughts on Ada Compilers.
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:10:30 +0200
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On 16-02-23 19:03 , Pascal Obry wrote:

> Now most of the GNAT runtime is written in Ada, but part are in C which
> is unavoidable to get proper values from the OS (such as constants for
> example).

Depends on the target, as you no doubt know. For example, the GNAT Pro 
Ravenscar Small Foot-Print bare-board runtime for the SPARC architecture 
has no C parts, all is in Ada except for a couple of assembly-language 
modules (crt0, context switch and such).

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