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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Ada95 on Plan9/Inferno
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"Tony Gair" <tonygair@btinternet.com> writes:

><snip>
>   if gcc had bindings taken out then can a normal c compiler be used to
> compile GCC from source and then we can use GNAT from there..

The Ada compiler component of GCC is written in Ada, and in fact in a
GNAT dialect of Ada. So you need GNAT to compile GNAT; nothing else
will do.

> To use the features of ada could we add in calls to the op system in
> the gnat compiled in ada....

I'm not clear what you are talking about here ... 

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