From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Another open-source compiler
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:23:21 +0200
Date: 2014-04-18T12:23:21+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1cpj6n25qk4nf.1o7sruqvgaovk.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: liqp9i$hge$2@dont-email.me
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:55:14 +0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
> Given that it's written in Ada, how would you go about solving the problem
> of getting it to run on a large range of platforms (which is what would
> be required for a viable C replacement) ?
As always, through bootstrapping.
The problem is not so much the compiler itself, especially because native
compilers are limited to very few platforms. Most interesting targets
rather require a cross compiler hosted under something like Windows or
Linux. There is probably no need even to bootstrap anything, just fixing
the back-end if the instruction set is different.
The actual problems are porting Ada's RTL. Putting the BSP together,
maintaining the tool chain etc.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2014-04-18 8:19 Another open-source compiler gautier_niouzes
2014-04-18 8:55 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-18 10:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2014-04-23 22:08 ` gautier_niouzes
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