Dumping RTL???

[Robert Dewar]

It is interesting to note that in the case of GNAT, we do have a facility
for dumping the (very well defined) AST, and utility functions for reading
the tree back in again. This is used by ASIS, and could theoretically be
used by an independent back end.

Whether or not this would violate the GPL if that independent back end
was not GPL'ed and was released, who knows? The situation would require
litigation and there is no point in bothering about it until it happens
(my own viewpoint, from the point of view of an expert on copyright law
but I am not an attorney), is that this would indeed be a copyright
violation (anyone really interested in understanding my point of view can
dig up the trial testimony for Intergraph vs Bentley systems :-)

Anyway, nothing vaguely like this has happened, we don't expect it to happen,
and worrying about it does not keep us awake at night!