From: Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Outrageous Thoughts on Ada Compilers.
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:10:17 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2016-02-23T11:10:17-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75c5bad7-9f77-4778-a90a-92398999f2ee@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456246988.16316.22.camel@obry.net>
On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 5:03:15 PM UTC, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Le mardi 23 février 2016 à 08:54 -0800, Austin Obyrne a écrit :
> > 1) Am I right in thinking that Ada compilers are written in the 'C'
> > programming langauge.
>
> No GNAT is written in Ada. Now that depends what you count. As you
> probably know GNAT is part of GCC which is written in C. So most
> accurately GNAT frontend and middleend (expander) are written in Ada.
>
> Now most of the GNAT runtime is written in Ada, but part are in C which
> is unavoidable to get proper values from the OS (such as constants for
> example).
>
> As you see the answer is not simple.
>
> --
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>
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Many thanks - your exposure is very useful to know - AOB
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 16:54 Outrageous Thoughts on Ada Compilers Austin Obyrne
2016-02-23 17:03 ` Pascal Obry
2016-02-23 18:52 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2016-02-23 19:10 ` Austin Obyrne [this message]
2016-02-23 22:10 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-02-24 8:36 ` Austin Obyrne
2016-02-24 8:41 ` MM
2016-02-25 9:34 ` Simon Wright
2016-02-25 16:37 ` Austin Obyrne
2016-02-25 18:50 ` MM
2016-02-25 18:13 ` Austin Obyrne
2016-02-25 18:29 ` MM
2016-02-28 2:20 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-02-28 8:55 ` MM
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