Adding files for Ada

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Wed May 23 03:24:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, 23 May 2001, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     Hopefully someone involved with moving libobjc etc. out to toplevel in 
>     EGCS a few years ago can explain the issues and the advantages of having 
>     libraries at toplevel; I don't remember them.
> 
> They would be very different for Ada because (1) the library is the
> bulk of the files and (2) the compiler is partly in Ada, so it needs
> the library to build.

This sounds like it might be easier to do cleanly once bootstrapping has
moved out to toplevel.

Does GNAT do a three stage bootstrap and compare of itself?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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