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Re: 3.2 PATCH: Fully support parallel gnat1/gnatbind builds
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: hp at bitrange dot com
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 May 02 08:05:11 EDT
- Subject: Re: 3.2 PATCH: Fully support parallel gnat1/gnatbind builds
> Indeed, the main reason it hasn't
> been done is that it is a very *hard* project. If you really want to use
> ANSI C, you have to figure out how to deal with nested functions. If you
> use GNU C, that isn't a problem, but you still have to deal with things
> like discriminated records and unconstrained arrays.
Great, more stuff to put in projects/ada.html. Maybe an initial
limited implementation would suffice for help with Ada
bootstrap, if the GCC Ada front end doesn't use those features.
It certainly does. They are fundamental parts of the languages and nearly
every Ada program will use them.