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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Starner Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: <36D34D54.BE347287@aasaa.ofe.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447705176 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C8413C.A5122F7A@pwfl.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SLUG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Sidebar: It would sure be nice to > see the variety of "front ends" for gcc combined in such a way that it > would be easy to have Ada, C, C++, Fortran and ??? all in the same > installation. I found the gcc-based Fortran compiler available > somewhere, but then did not attempt to install it for fear of messing up > my GNAT installation in some manner.) See egcs.cygnus.com. The EGCS compiler has most of the compiler frontends in one package. Unfortunetly, there have been some improvements from the GCC sources, and a front end that will compile against GCC 2.8.1 won't compile against EGCS. For example, GNAT won't compile with it. Since ACT isn't intrested, and Cygnus isn't interested enough to pull people to work on it, the nesseccary patches to GNAT aren't forthcoming. My advice is to compile EGCS into /usr/local/egcs and then simlink to /usr/local/ using names like egcc or whatever. The frontends that come with EGCS are C, C++, Objective C, and Fortran. Pascal will compile against it, too, if you get the package from elsewhere. -- The irony is, there ARE drugs that ENHANCE it. This says something profound about either science or medicine or people or muppets or all four. - S. John Ross