ADA frontend?

[joel@OARcorp.com]

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   > going to pay a bloody fortune for VAX C/ADA!), and I'd be glad to help
>   > with the testing of the compiler frontend if there's any interest.
> Note, the Ada front-end is actually written in Ada, so you're going to
> need binaries for a Vax (?!?) or you'll have to make Ada work as a
> cross compiler.  It's been done, but I've gotten the impression it is
> not easy.

This bootstrapping process has been done for a number of hosts which
already supported gcc but not gnat.  Ask on the "chat@gnat.com" list.  

But many of the VMS and DEC UNIX configurations are supported GNAT
configurations already so you probably need to look at www.gnat.com to see
the status.

--joel