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: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-20 13:46:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <2460735.u7KiuvdgQP@linux1.krischik.com> <54759e7e.0402081525.50c7adae@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <70vZb.116$nd2.3561@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1077312643 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:30:43 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:30:43 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5701 comp.lang.c:23504 Date: 2004-02-20T16:31:47-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article , "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: >>It would be useful to have such an Open Sourced version of the same >>(or a flavour of GNAT). It could then be used as a bootstrap >>compiler for GNAT on new platforms. You would of course have to >>do a lot of Ada runtime library support at the C level as well, >>but for a bootstrap compiler, this could be minimized I think. > > For bootstrapping purposes, the compiler need not be open source, > since when you are done none of the original compiler would remain > and the result of your work could be distributed under whatever > terms you choose. Agreed, but an "Open Sourced" bootstrap compiler would allow _that_ compiler to be compiled by GCC, (which is always eventually ported) so that bootstrapping can be done. The other case requires that platform to be "available" to someone generous soul ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk