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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?
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On 2011-11-21, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
>
> Well, since it's open source, I think you can save all the sources.
> Then even if all the GCC and GNAT developers decide to quit tomorrow
> and become stock brokers or musicians or whatever, you'll still have
> the sources and should still be able to compile them, as long as
> there's a C compiler available, which I think will be the case
> forever.
>

You need a working Ada compiler to be able to compile the gcc Ada
front end as the majority of the Ada front end is written in Ada.

This is checked for as part of the configure script.

Simon.

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