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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 20:08:01 -0700
- cc: dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rms at gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <20001102025839.62E9B34DAF@nile.gnat.com>you write:
> The front ends for modern compilers are remarkably complex, so it is not
> surprising that in both the case of GNAT and g++ the number of significant
> contributors to the front end will remain small.
I disagree about the complexity keeping the number of developers small.
We have more active C++ developers now than ever, most have become active
since GCC development was opened up. Similarly for the rest of the compiler.
jeff