From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Source code representation
Date: 2000/11/23
Date: 2000-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A1D494B.3738DB5D@telepath.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tglmualvdw.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Florian Weimer wrote:
> The file-centered approach used by GNAT is close enough to what other
> programming language implementations do on unixoid platforms
> traditionally. I've never used another Ada compiler, and I wonder if
> other vendors choose a different model (i.e. precompilation of specs
The Modula-2 implemenations I've worked with all used a library approach
similar to what traditional Ada compilers use. I believe Oberon uses a
library as well. C's just file-based because its modularity support is so
weak and low-level that it has no choice.
I'd think the best way for you to get a handle on this would be to go
download the evaluation version of ObjectAda and play with it a while.
(Go to http://www.aonix.com and click on "Downloads" on the sidebar.) It
uses Tucker's Favorite Front End, which is both widely used by non-Gnat
compilers, and fairly representative of a typical approach.
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2000-11-23 0:00 Source code representation Florian Weimer
2000-11-23 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-11-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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