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Re: ADA frontend?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: ADA frontend?
- From: Samuel Tardieu <sam at ada dot eu dot org>
- Date: 04 Sep 1998 22:43:53 +0200
- Cc: Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>, Linux-Egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Ada addicts (see http://ada.eu.org/)
- References: <15307.904875879@hurl.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu <sam at ada dot eu dot org>
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
Jeff> Note, the Ada front-end is actually written in Ada, so you're
Jeff> going to need binaries for a Vax (?!?) or you'll have to make
Jeff> Ada work as a cross compiler. It's been done, but I've gotten
Jeff> the impression it is not easy.
The core compiler itself is really easy to cross-compile, as well as a
library that does not include tasking (it's not more complicated than
doing for C). What is still to do afterwards is port the tasking over
the system threads or use a userlevel library.
Sam
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