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RE: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, aoliva at redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: William Gacquer <wgacquer at ubisoft dot fr>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:45:48 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
but gcj is also a large project and it it's in GCC, isn't-it?
and ( I am not sure of that ) GNAT is able to export bytecode compatible
with Java bytecode : I wonder why GCC could not benefit from that too.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu [mailto:kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu]
> Sent: lundi 18 septembre 2000 18:47
> To: aoliva@redhat.com
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
>
>
> > have wondered why the gnu crew would not have decided
> to add Ada to
> > the already substantial capabilities of GCC
>
> AFAIK, it's because part of GNAT is written in Ada, so
> you'd need an
> Ada compiler to bootstrap it, and few people have one handy.
>
> That's half the reason. The other half is that it's a *lot* of large
> files and there's still the question of whether it makes sense to put
> it into the main repository.
>