Re: ANN: GCC 4.9.0 for Mac OS X Mavericks

[kylix <likai3g@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:06:11 PM UTC+8, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:08:39 AM UTC-5, kylix wrote:
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> > I try port my Ada SDL game to iphone, and found clang is the only way, so you can't use Ada develop
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> > app for ios. Some open source projects hack other languages (such as golang, haskell) work on
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> > jailbroken iphone, but i don't think that fit your desire.
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> What was the blocking obstacle that you could not fix regarding linking Clang-compiled Objective-C or Objective-C++ with GCC-compiled Ada?  (I am not interested in fully replacing Clang-compiled Objective-C[++] for iOS's UI with Ada--only using Ada the way that Apple recommends using C++ with Objective-C++ as invoked by Objective-C[++].

On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 7:06:11 PM UTC+8, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:08:39 AM UTC-5, kylix wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> > I try port my Ada SDL game to iphone, and found clang is the only way, so you can't use Ada develop
> 
> > app for ios. Some open source projects hack other languages (such as golang, haskell) work on
> 
> > jailbroken iphone, but i don't think that fit your desire.
> 
> 
> 
> What was the blocking obstacle that you could not fix regarding linking Clang-compiled Objective-C or Objective-C++ with GCC-compiled Ada?  (I am not interested in fully replacing Clang-compiled Objective-C[++] for iOS's UI with Ada--only using Ada the way that Apple recommends using C++ with Objective-C++ as invoked by Objective-C[++].)

I look at apple gcc 4.2 source, found apple make a lot patches to gcc source code, so if we want to make new version gcc work around with iOS, too many works need to do. I also try dragonegg, make it work on my macbook, but unfortunely it does not support arm-apple-darwin target.