From: Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: What is GNAT?
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk (A.Appleyard)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:44:09 -0500 (EST)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> > >I am very excited about GNAT and the (upcoming) validation testing ...
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but what is GNAT?
> 
GNAT stands for GNU/NYU Ada Translator, an Ada 95 compiler that fits
into the GNU software system. A port exists for djgpp, which is why it
comes up occasionally on this list. The project funding calls for
SunOS 4 and OS/2 as primary ports; other than these three, ports
exist for Solaris (SPARC and x86), Linux, HPUX, IRIX, etc. Porting
is reasonably straightforward but must be done by cross-compiling,
because GNAT is mostly written in Ada 95, so you need it to compile
it...

The lead developers of GNAT are at New York University, with additional
work being done at Florida State, Texas A&M, George Washington, ENST
in Paris, and elsewhere.

All ports are available at cs.nyu.edu, pub/gnat. There are goodies in 
pub/gnat/contrib as well.

Mike Feldman