From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 3/29/2025 7:52 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 3/29/2025 6:40 PM, bill 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?   
   >>   
   >> It did originally not sure about later versions,  But then, isn't   
   >> that pretty much how a lot of the early free compilers worked?   
   >> F2C, P2C?   
   >   
   > One of the somewhat more serious compilers generating C is   
   > GnuCOBOL.   
      
   cobc -Wall -free -x test.cob   
      
   produces:   
      
   test.exe   
      
   but:   
      
   cobc -Wall -free -x -C test.cob   
      
   produces:   
      
   test.c   
   test.c.h   
   test.c.l.h   
      
   Arne   
      
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