Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:53:51PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Actually from past experiences recently, e.g. with the ia64 port, I have
> been struck by how closed the development was.

I suppose I can see how anyone without Intel NDAs might think that.

The fact of the matter is that the development was very open, at
least to anyone who had proper Intel paperwork.  HP did the initial
gcc and binutils work; Cygnus refined both and began optimization
work; folks from CERN, Intel, IBM, SGI, SuSE, TurboLinux, and VA
were testing new code regularly.

Things were done with as much community involvement as the lawyers
would allow.



r~