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 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c696,e7b91be34f373acc X-Google-Attributes: gid10c696,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,af147e83a3a803fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-20 12:23:44 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A41161B.2FEBF03D@worldnet.att.net> From: William Starner Reply-To: billeug@worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat ADA95 References: <91gqo0$4n9$06$1@news.t-online.com> <91jsld013o5@drn.newsguy.com> <91nvfo$v72$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <91o1qu$1hq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:23:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.80.24.51 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 977343823 12.80.24.51 (Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:23:43 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:23:43 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.os.linux.development.apps:4891 comp.lang.ada:3291 Date: 2000-12-20T20:23:43+00:00 List-Id: cbbrowne@hex.net wrote: > Presumably that implies that GNAT , one of > many additional front ends for > GCC, may soon be entering the GCC code base so > that it would be part of the "official" GCC distribution. > > It's news to me; I would be interested in hearing something > authoritative about this The offical GNU Ada maintainer for the FSF (Robert Dewar) just announced it; is that authoritative enough? It's been discussed on gcc@gcc.gnu.org extensively, and I believe they're just waiting on ACT to feel comfortable that GNAT works with gcc 3.0 and add it to the CVS tree. > that might indicate that the GCC Projects > should be updated due to the statement: > > "We currently have front ends for C, C++, Objective C, CHILL, > Fortran, and Java. Pascal and Ada front ends exist but have not yet > been integrated." > > no longer being quite true... With respect to Pascal and Ada, it is still true. -- David Starner - dvdeug@hushmail.com (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org off vacation)