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From: rracine@draper.com (Roger Racine)
Subject: Re: Does this model work ?
Date: 1999/05/17
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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