This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Ada policy


Laurent GUERBY wrote:

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 16:39, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

I think you could reason on facts: the C front-end!


I'd say not relevant, the Ada subset used by GNAT is
much more complex than C.

I think you missed the point. Gabriel was saying that even the (much simpler) language of the C front end is unable to meet the criterion of compiling with all possible previous C compilers :-)


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]