From: rracine@draper.com (Roger Racine)
Subject: Re: Does this model work ?
Date: 1999/05/17
Date: 1999-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rracine.18.0009E659@draper.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7hmdp8$ksq$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <7hmdp8$ksq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
>In article <374686a0.3798481@news2.ibm.net>,
> jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi) wrote:
>> I think so, and maybe, with GNAT, you could download only the
>> output of GNAT to the gcc compiler?
>I am not sure what the thought is behind this, but for sure
>it is confused. gcc is a multi-language compiler. One of the
>languages is GNAT. GNAT is part of gcc, not separate from it.
>If you mean the GNU C compiler, then probably you are thinking
>that somehow GNAT generates input for this compiler. That is
>quite incorrect, in no sense does GNAT translate Ada to C.
I thought he meant the output of the GNAT front-end, which is then provided to
the "standard" code generators for GCC. This would save the syntax and
semantic checking, and initial translation that goes on within GNAT.
I have no idea if it would be larger or smaller than the source.
Roger Racing
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-14 0:00 Does this model work ? Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-14 0:00 ` dennison
[not found] ` <01be9ee1$eca9be10$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-17 0:00 ` jrcarter001
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Roger Racine [this message]
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-15 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-20 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-18 0:00 ` dennison
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