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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3fc79ad704f81a40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-09 22:25:29 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing a Mac Ada compiler Date: 9 Mar 1995 23:05:30 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3joj6a$plb@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3jg167$a3l@nic.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1995-03-09T23:05:30-05:00 List-Id: In article <3jg167$a3l@nic.umass.edu>, Mike White wrote: >Could anyone give me an idea of about how much of an effort it would be >to write an Ada compiler for the mac/powermac (or if youve had similar >experience on other computers...). I am quite dismayed by the general >lack of Ada support on the mac and I figure others are too. I have heard of >compilers being ported to the mac, but a) I'd rather not wait and >b) I imagine it would be quite a learning experience. Call me crazy. >Anyways, would it be MUCH more difficult to write an ada 9x compiler >than ada83? The GNAT project has consumed >3 calendar years, so I suppose somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 person-years has been involved. And they are not writing code generators, as they are building on top of the GNU backend. If you are a Mac fan and have time on your hands, get busy developing a port of gcc to the Mac; GNAT can then follow on its heels. Ada compilers are not easy. Best to reuse something, especially if it is free. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ One, two, three ways an underdog: Ada fan, Mac fan, Old Liberal Democrat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the WWW: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ or http://info.acm.org/sigada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------