Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain

[Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>]

"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>  I would notice two things. The first is that GCC stands for GNU C
> Compiler;

GCC = GNU Compiler Collection ;-).  That includes C, C++, Java, and some
other languages that I thought included Ada.

> and the second is that there were indeed some issue with the
> intermediate language it use, which shown (in the past), to not be
> very well suited for Ada or at least GNAT (or just its
> runtime?). There use to be some tweakeries to make it work properly
> with GCC, if my mind is right.

Hmm, ok, but I'd expect that is already in GCC by now?  I.e. it was
added and kept and it works.  

There is of course the matter of the runtime, and I guess that is
non-trivial if it hasn't already been done.  I wonder how much
difference there is between a basic Ada runtime (no multitasking etc.)
and an embedded libc, and whether it might be possible to re-use a libc
somehow.

I've never used Ada but have been a little bit interested in it, and had
sort of hoped that I could automatically use it on anything I could use
GCC.  I guess that was too optimistic.  It would have been nice ;-).

I agree that it would probably help Ada's popularity if this type of
port were available.