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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com>
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Date: 2011-12-19T15:35:34-08:00
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Hi,
   I'm pretty sure I'm the wrong person to answer this, but oh
well.  ;-)

On Dec 16, 9:08=A0am, jonathan <johns...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 16, 1:43=A0pm, Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger <k...@codelabs.ch> wrote:
>
> > If I understood the article correctly this requires a working
> > LLVM-Frontend for Ada. I do not know what the status of the current
> > implementation [1] is but maybe somebody more knowledgeable about LLVM
> > with regards to Ada could comment on that and give their take?
>
> I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but the new LLVM 3.0
> has been out a few weeks, along with the new Ada front end
>
> =A0 =A0http://dragonegg.llvm.org/
>
> They say:
>
> =A0 =A0Patching and building GCC is no longer required: the plugin should
> =A0 =A0work with your system GCC (version 4.5 or 4.6; on Debian/Ubuntu
> systems
> =A0 =A0the gcc-4.5-plugin-dev or gcc-4.6-plugin-dev package is also
> needed).
>
> which sounds encouraging.

Clang does not have an Ada frontend. It's a "C language"-based
compiler only, e.g. C / C++ / Objective C / Objective C++. LLVM is the
backend, hence the (now deprecated, no longer updated, not available
in LLVM 3.0) LLVM-GCC (GCC 4.2) compiler was needed to compile Ada
source code while targeting the LLVM backend.

DragonEgg is a plugin for GCC proper (specifically, 4.5.x or 4.6.x)
which targets the LLVM backend. Since GCC (only, and not Clang) has an
Ada frontend / compiler, you must use that.