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Re: Ada & JGNAT
Andrew Haley wrote:
A worry has always been that you could write a proprietary compiler
and use gcc's back end. You could do this without violating the GPL
by making the two passes of the compiler separate programs.
Please note that it is not a correct assumption that the use
of separate programs necessarily means that there are no GPL
programs. For instance, any program could be split into two
programs by doing the equivalent of a checkpoint restart,
and it is hard to see that this would qualify as real
separation.