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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
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Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Wes Groleau wrote:
> > Maybe that's because the "underlying gcc" is written in C. :-)
> 
> Maybe so, but interfacing with C libraries is probably universal

You are just missing the point, how sad it is to see that you are
pushing a bit too hard by making just stupid statements like this one!

Look, GNAT is based on GCC backend. Now suppose that the GCC backend changes
some interfaces, worst than that, that the GCC backend changes the way to
use it (implementation of new optimizations that requires some more
information from the frontend)... How is this supposed to work without
changing the frontend ? The point is that it just requires some work (sometime
lot of work to comply to new backend requirements) and this work takes
time.

Pascal.

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