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vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com writes:

> I heard that there use to be a port of the front end of GCC (hence
> including Ada) to work with LLVM as a backend : DragonEgg. Since Apple
> now uses LLVM for Clang, Swift and others, I was asking myself : would
> it be an improvement to have LLVM instead of GCC for this compiler ? 

If you're prepared to stick with GCC 4.6!

http://dragonegg.llvm.org/#gettingrelease