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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: Gene Montgomery <g dot montgomery at gte dot net>
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 18 Sep 2000 13:13:30 -0300
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <39C6366C.17C3E994@gte.net>
On Sep 18, 2000, Gene Montgomery <g.montgomery@gte.net> wrote:
> have wondered why the gnu crew would not have decided to add Ada to
> the already substantial capabilities of GCC
AFAIK, it's because part of GNAT is written in Ada, so you'd need an
Ada compiler to bootstrap it, and few people have one handy.
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