Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 20001102131333.CE6BF34D80@nile.gnat.com >you write:
  > <<I think that a lot of the "ia32" references have been typos for "ia64".
  > >>
  > 
  > Indeed, and that was my fault, although the typo did yield the interesting
  > information that the ia32 work had been done under non-disclosure, which
  > sure seems very strange to me.
Why should it surprise you that one of our customers wanted a completely
revamped ia32 backend which was geared towards supporting PII/PIII cores
in a sane manner and didn't want anyone to know about it before the work
was complete?

jeff