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Re: real.c implementation
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk, aph at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 22 Oct 2002 17:56:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: real.c implementation
- References: <20021023005051.EF121F29F2@nile.gnat.com>
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 17:50, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > I don't understand why your argument doesn't apply to having Ada a
> > completely separate codebase to GCC? After all, it has different
> > requirements to C, for example.
>
>
> I am sorry, I don't understand your point here. Clearly Ada and C can
> share large parts of a code generator, but there are requirements in
> Ada that are not satisfied by the existing GCC code generator for sure.
I think the question was more along the lines of why the existing
infrastructure wasn't improved as opposed to building your own...
I think...
-eric
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