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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 00 12:46:43 EDT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> 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.