This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Pascal & Ada Frontends
- To: Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>
- Subject: Re: Pascal & Ada Frontends
- From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:49:19 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
On 10 Feb 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
|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?
The same will happen as when you try to build GCC without having a C compiler
installed. For building GNAT it is essential to have GNAT installed. A port
to a platform for which no GNAT binary is available has to be done using
a cross-compilation.
Regards,
Geert