Xref: news-dnh.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:1567
Path: news-dnh.mv.net!mv!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!sun4nl!phcoms4.seri.philips.nl!news
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
Lines: 18
References: <40ke9k$mdb AT freenet DOT vancouver DOT bc DOT ca> <40n13f$qn7 AT phcoms4 DOT seri DOT philips DOT nl> <somebody DOT loopback DOT edu-150895112838 AT ou098008 DOT otago DOT ac DOT nz>
Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.26.173.19
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Dj-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

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.