Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Hartmut Schirmer]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Laurent Guerby wrote:
>IMHO, the problem we're trying to correct now is to get past the chicken-and-egg
>bootstrap problem, no available GCC compatible source means no contribution
>which means no incentive to provide public up to date sources...

Configure GNAT to produce java byte code and let it compile itself:
JGNAT.

This (and any binary produced by JGNAT) can be executed in a JVM or
directly on the host using GCC´s java front end:

         JGNAT               gcj
Sources -------> byte code -------> hosted GNAT (stage0)


Creating JGNAT once (or every few years) should be sufficient.

This scheme may work for other self implemented languages as well.

Hartmut