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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,36288d1c39303ceb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-15 21:47:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "B. Douglas Hilton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Porting GNAT to Debian Hurd Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:52:04 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3B2AE5F4.59E4ABE8@engineer.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3B296913.1F13E65D@engineer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8797 Date: 2001-06-16T00:52:04-04:00 List-Id: I don't know if Hurd is ripe for a takeover, but it would probably not be excessively difficult to fork the development tree at this stage. I was looking at the gnat sources, and it appears that you need to already have an older gnat installed to build a newer one. This might be tricky for Hurd, because I'd have to cross-compile gnat from Linux, then use it to do a native build in Hurd. To do that, I need to compile gnat in a cross-compilation configuration in Linux; it would be a minor feat, but is theoretically possible. A good start for an Ada kernel would be to rewrite oskit in Ada, possibly in a very stripped-down configuration. Now that would be pretty cool. - Doug Ted Dennison wrote: > One of my occasional daydreams involves an OS getting "taken over" by Ada as > more and more of its apps are written using it. That would lead to > device-drivers, which would eventually lead to Ada starting to seep into the > kernel sources. Finally the remainder of the kernel would just get rewritten in > Ada to make things more consistent (and maintainable). > > Hurd's at a good place for such a takeover, but I don't think Ada is yet. We > just don't quite have the volunteer manpower. > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com