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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: hartmut dot schirmer at arcormail dot de
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:22:07 +0200
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200010111937.VAA01637@ulmo> <00101321215000.00268@hallo>
- Reply-to: guerby at acm dot org
I 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...
The use of "bootstrap" here was unfortunate, but well...
Harmut wrote:
> Configure GNAT to produce java byte code and let it compile itself:
I'm not sure it would work since JGNAT might not support at this point
some Ada features used by the GNAT code itself (parts of it are fairly
low level and might not work on JVM IIRC). But definitely an
interesting thing to look at ;-).
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Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>