Re: Writing a Mac Ada compiler

[cons116@twain.oit.umass.edu (Mike White)]

Lots of people wrote:

: Lots of helpful things.

Yes, as I was thinking it over, I realized that I had not fully considered
the size of the project I proposed.  Everyone seems to be pointing to a
port of GCC 2.6.3 and then compiling GNAT, thus making the world happy.
At first I winced at the concept of porting GCC, but it does seem a lot
more reasonable than "reinventing the wheel".  I unfortunately don't know
much about GNAT, and have limited experience with compiler design.  I was
basically trying to find out if, as a learning experience, writing an Ada
compiler from scratch was a doable project. (plus I really prefer building
up my own code than working on others' code, but hey, who doesn't?)  

Obviously the approach I was considering is not really feasible, and I
appreciate the warnings!

So, porting GCC and then GNAT on top of that is the way to go.  Or, just
as a learning experience, implement a subset of Ada...  I'm gonna have
to start looking into those GCC sources, I guess!

mike white