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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: guerby at acm dot org, Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Hartmut Schirmer <hartmut dot schirmer at arcormail dot de>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:56:26 +0200
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rms at gnu dot org, guerby at acm dot org
- References: <200010111937.VAA01637@ulmo>
- Reply-To: hartmut dot schirmer at arcormail dot de
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Laurent Guerby wrote:
>IMHO, the problem we're trying to correct now is to get past the chicken-and-egg
>bootstrap problem, no available GCC compatible source means no contribution
>which means no incentive to provide public up to date sources...
Configure GNAT to produce java byte code and let it compile itself:
JGNAT.
This (and any binary produced by JGNAT) can be executed in a JVM or
directly on the host using GCC´s java front end:
JGNAT gcj
Sources -------> byte code -------> hosted GNAT (stage0)
Creating JGNAT once (or every few years) should be sufficient.
This scheme may work for other self implemented languages as well.
Hartmut