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From: | W DOT Derks AT nl DOT cis DOT philips DOT com (Wiljan Derks) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: GNAT - Ada frontend for Djgpp question |
Date: | 16 Aug 1995 06:52:22 GMT |
Organization: | Philips |
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In article <somebody DOT loopback DOT edu-150895112838 AT ou098008 DOT otago DOT ac DOT nz>, somebody.loopback.edu says... > >> Notice that GNAT is not just a front end but a real compiler. It is linked >> agains the gcc backend however. > >indicating that it's not a compiler. One of the papers published by the >team developing GNAT tells you that - the name stands for GNU NYU Ada >Translator. it just turns Ada source code into the required form for the >GCC back end, so it really is just a front end. > If you reason like this also the GNU C++ compiler is also only a front end and also the objective C compiler. I think that is not how you should view it. GNAT is really a complete compiler. It just shares big peaces of code with the GCC compiler. Actually for GNAT several modification where made to the GCC backend.
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