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In article <6132.918595951@hurl.cygnus.com>,
law@hurl.cygnus.com (Jeffrey A Law) writes:
> In message <36C07564.D3D818AA@aasaa.ofe.org>you write:
>> Is there any plans on integrating GPC into EGCS? From the EGCS back end
>> patch from the GPC distribution, it doesn't look like it would be hard
>> to integrate it (not speaking from experience or knowledge, though.) Is
>> it an organization or people problem; i.e. the GPC like having their own
>> separate lists and CVS stuff?
> We'd like to include gpc & gnat. I doubt either will be included in time for
^^^^
> the egcs-1.2 release. IMHO it's mostly a manpower problem.
GNAT is mostly writen in Ada95. How do you plan to handle to bootstrapping issues?
GNAT usually seems to only compile with the previous version of itself - what
happens if I don't have an Ada compiler installed yet?
-Andi
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