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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Another open-source compiler Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:23:21 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1cpj6n25qk4nf.1o7sruqvgaovk.dlg@40tude.net> References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: AuYlnUSfTZrfhAkRjyySpQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1725 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185803 Date: 2014-04-18T12:23:21+02:00 List-Id: 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