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Subject: Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:00:19 -0400
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On 3/29/2025 7:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/29/2025 2:44 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 29/03/2025 18:19, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>>> But more popular approach seem to be via custom
>>> backend or via C.  For example Haskell folks some time
>>> ago said that LLVM does not really give them advantages
>>> compared to going via C, and C way is easier.
>>
>> Isn't that what GNAT does for Ada?
> 
> GNAT can do a lot of things.
> 
> But I believe the "standard" is to generate native
> object code.

On the non standard platform of VMS Alpha (GCC 2.8.1 based) the flow is:

gcc.exe
    |-->gnat1.exe to translate .adb to .s
    |-->as.exe to translate .s to .obj

Arne