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From: somebody.loopback.edu (Somebody)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GNAT - Ada frontend for Djgpp question
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:28:37 +1300
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In article <40n13f$qn7 AT phcoms4 DOT seri DOT philips DOT nl>, W DOT Derks AT nl DOT cis DOT philips DOT com
(Wiljan Derks) wrote:

> In article <40ke9k$mdb AT freenet DOT vancouver DOT bc DOT ca>, 
> rdc AT freenet DOT vancouver DOT bc DOT ca says...
> >
> >Just got GNAT to learn Ada on - and some tutorials.
> >Curious if any other are using the Ada frontend for Djgpp's GCC.
> >
{some stuff deleted]

> For everybody using C or C++ right now I can just say: switch to GNAT
> as soon as possible.
Hmm.. contentious statement.  Ada is a f***ing HUGE language and takes
quite a while to learn, and GNAT doesn't implement all features (esp.
tasking) on Dos yet.  Also, I can't find a published Ada95 reference
manual, which I consider a necessary "at hand" thing for looking up those
constructs.  still, an Ada83 one will do in the meantime.

> 
> 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.

Cheers

Richard