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From: rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: ADA to C++ translator
Date: 1996/07/16
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Date: 1996-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4sdi8k$fab@michp1.redstone.army.mil> "Kevin J. Weise" <kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil> writes:

> Simon A Watts <sawatts@dra.hmg.gb> wrote (with minor deletions):
> >
> >I think that the GNU Ada95 works by a translation to C (AFAIR).
> >
> 
> You remember incorrectly.  GNAT is *NOT* and *never has been* an
> Ada95 to C translator.  The GNAT front end (written in Ada95, I
> might add) compiles Ada95 source code to an intermediate
> representation.  The GNU back end takes the intermediate
> representation and produces *object code*.

Well... assembly code.  :-)

But not C.
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