From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.3.79 with SMTP id 76mr12698087iod.134.1521996990160; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:56:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5f17:: with SMTP id f23-v6mr2114898oti.12.1521996990065; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!199-v6no2924894itl.0!news-out.google.com!j10-v6ni3468ite.0!nntp.google.com!199-v6no2924892itl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:56:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86abcb30-87f6-42bb-b28b-cf0033633132@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5 References: <7eaadf74-c55f-4c00-8f13-bf027cce130e@googlegroups.com> <6188b81f-7d6a-4ea4-90d4-74142471d979@googlegroups.com> <66082e27-14ca-45d1-b8ff-7fe825cd2687@googlegroups.com> <17b6ac53-6b99-430e-8bac-63311ea1fffe@googlegroups.com> <2b114d79-3af8-4285-b645-e2ea6b83331a@googlegroups.com> <2108cec0-fcb7-4b9e-b68c-15dc274d85e1@googlegroups.com> <131606956.543351411.509161.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <8cd36360-51bb-4d7b-b823-afd244a83344@googlegroups.com> <1220246767.543424591.870799.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <82e2a3ff-b7e8-42b2-9dc7-84c0910ca184@googlegroups.com> <1720809648.543445951.620902.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <1485479787.543449660.880348.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <7a8e40b3-7100-4bb2-a6a7-a3b1d4d59b94@googlegroups.com> <6fcbdb10-3d5c-4a54-b75c-157b9ed9a093@googlegroups.com> <251782d7-d40b-422e-801a-3670b6da8e1b@googlegroups.com> <2624e271-85d1-4753-8a70-47733d36b4b2@googlegroups.com> <11a9ef2e-2b91-46d0-98aa-8ad9c617f790@googlegroups.com> <38f6ef66-4f7d-48df-894f-869d1bb8eb96@googlegroups.com> <87732f2a-4032-467d-b8c9-cfff2f1b670c@googlegroups.com> <86abcb30-87f6-42bb-b28b-cf0033633132@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <12e1f274-b445-4971-abb2-d1388631697b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: LLVM and Ada From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:56:30 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51200 Date: 2018-03-25T09:56:29-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, 25 March 2018 03:17:26 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller wrote: > For multiple people or sponsoring companies (or even federal grant-writin= g agencies) to get involved in your work, you would need to have some sweet= -smelling pollen to attract bees to your flower, so to speak. If pluggabil= ity of different backends is the primary/sole definition of modularity in B= yron, there seems currently to exist only 3 pluggable open-source backends = that could conceivably serve as Byron's backend processor machine-code gene= ration (i.e., GCC, LLVM, and OpenWatcom) and only a few bytecode backends (= e.g., CLR, JVM). Of these 5, only one seems compelling: LLVM. There is also libFirm ** Wall of text removed **