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Re: GNAT is required to build ada

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: howarth at bromo dot msbb dot uc dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:11:33 -0400
Subject: Re: GNAT is required to build ada
References: <472C9672.5000408@adacore.com> <20071103.152836.126213782.davem@davemloft.net> <472CF8F8.2010209@adacore.com> <20071103.160836.74674677.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:

The trick is to have a program that, even if massively suboptimal, can
compile ADA code for  the purposes of bootstrapping the ADA compiler
and is written in C.


No trick here, Ada is a complex language and even a "simple" Ada
compiler that you envision is a huge amount of work, but if you
feel it is practical, by all means go ahead and create such a beast!

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