From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 26 Apr 93 05:18:24 GMT From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: GNU Ada Status? Message-ID: <1993Apr26.051824.11103@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article spear@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jon Spear ) writes: > >This has been asked a few times recently in the comp.lang.ada >newsgroup, but with no public response. (None that I saw, anyway.) > >Would someone who knows, please post a summary of what's happening >or planned with the GNU Ada Translator project? > The NYU folks are working away on this, which is, no doubt, why they don't have time to keep answering questions on the net. They are planning to demo something reasonable - I believe - at Ada-Europe in June. Their plan has been to get out a release in 1993. From the level of activity I have detected among my contacts there, they will make it. I received a note - which may have been posted to this group - in January or thereabouts, showing a small Ada program going through the entire process from Ada source to SPARC machine code; the note displayed the tree built by the front end, and illustrated that an Ada program could get all the way through the gcc back end (which NYU is modifying). This proof-of- concept was good to see - they had all the pieces stitched together. Good software engineering - get the interfaces done FIRST so everything is integrated at every step. I reckon that they are adding code generation and run-time support progressively, part of the language at a time. These guys know how to do an Ada compiler - GNAT is really their 3rd one, as Ada/Ed-SETL and Ada/Ed-C preceded this one. Most of the people on the project are the same guys, and the one who's revising the gcc back end has worked on gcc stuff in the past, before this Ada project started. Good team, IMHO. They'll deliver the goods. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA (202) 994-5253 (voice) (202) 994-5296 (fax) mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "The most important thing is to be sincere, and once you've learned how to fake that, you've got it made." -- old show-business adage ------------------------------------------------------------------------