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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: The inner workings of Gnat (was: No call for Ada (was Re:
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Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:

> Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> > GNAT does NOT translate Ada source into C as an
> > intermediate.
> 
> Has it always been this way? I know some people think that early versions of
> Gnat translated Ada to C, and that it was later integrated with GCC so that
> the C step was removed. Is that false?

Yes that's false. GNAT has never translated Ada to C. People are often
confused by the fact that the binder did generate a specific file in C. This
file was compiled using GCC and passed to the linker. GNAT now, by default,
generates this binder file in Ada. 

But again GNAT has never ever translated anything from Ada to C.

Pascal.

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