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From: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:47:41 +0100
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Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Pete Ballmer wrote:
>
>> Other systems like LLVM would be ok except they're not supporting anything
>> but Intel.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean. When I look at the LLVM web
> site I see:
>
> "An easily retargettable code generator, which currently supports X86,
> X86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC-64, ARM, Thumb, SPARC, Alpha, CellSPU, MIPS,
> MSP430, SystemZ, and XCore."
>
> Are you saying that only the Intel support is used or gets active
> development?
>
I think that might be the case yes.

The LLVM guys have a habit of claiming support for features when they
are barely out of alpha. For example, their language support is mostly
'in development' with the exception of the C family and Haskell, and yet
they claim support for multiple languages beyond that. The rather shaky
state of Ada support by way of dragonegg is a case in point.

It's a good project, and competition brings new ideas, but their and
their supporters' marketing should be taken with a grain of salt.

Mart

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