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Re: ADA frontend?
- To: Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: ADA frontend?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 20:24:39 -0600
- cc: Linux-Egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980903125646.174B-100000@lo-pc3035a>you write:
> As we all know, there's the C++ and Fortran frontends for egcs. Are there
> any plans to introduce an ADA frontend in the future?
There is an Ada front end for gcc. However, it does not just drop into
the source tree and work.
The short term plans mostly consist improving the Ada patchkit so that
folks can pick up the Ada front-end, patch it and have it work.
> This would dovetail in nicely with some C++/ADA development I have in mind
> within the next few years most particuarly on a VMS platform (I'm not
> going to pay a bloody fortune for VAX C/ADA!), and I'd be glad to help
> with the testing of the compiler frontend if there's any interest.
Note, the Ada front-end is actually written in Ada, so you're going to
need binaries for a Vax (?!?) or you'll have to make Ada work as a
cross compiler. It's been done, but I've gotten the impression it is
not easy.
jeff