From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   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   
      
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